The successive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with altered tissue tropism has progressively decoupled transmissibility from lower respiratory tract pathogenicity. Omicron lineages transmit exception...

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Respiratory virus genomic surveillance output is unevenly distributed globally. Here, the authors show that addressing this imbalance could substantially reduce the time to first detection o...

Abstract. Protein structure-based comparison provides a framework for uncovering deep evolutionary relationships that can escape conventional sequence-base

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