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Mutation could significantly increase coronavirus infection ability, study suggests

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coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers.The research may explain why early outbreaks in some parts of the world did not end up overwhelming health systems as much as other outbreaks in New York and Italy, according to experts at Scripps Research.The mutation, named D614G, increased the number of “spikes” on the coronavirus – which is the part that gives it its distinctive shape.

Those spikes are what allow the virus to bind to and infect cells. “The number—or density—of functional spikes on the virus is 4 or 5 times greater due to this mutation,” said Hyeryun Choe, one of the senior authors of the study.The researchers say that it is still unknown whether this small.

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