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TWiEVO 78: The virus daily double

  • May 26, 2022
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, monkeypox, natural selection, negative selection, pandemic, positive selection, SARS-CoV-2, smallpox, spike protein, variants of concern

Nels and Vincent provide an update on cases of monkeypox, and summarize a biochemical view of three changes in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that may balance positive and negative selection.

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