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tehjoker on Aug 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The mutation that helps Delta spread

Receptor binding affinity can also increase too, or like Alpha did, further suppress interferon production. Lots of ways...

T-A on Aug 20, 2021 [–]

That reminds me of this scary preprint from January:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.425392v3

"in vitro evolution enhancing binding by 600-fold provides guidelines towards potentially new evolving mutations with even higher infectivity" :/

tehjoker on Aug 20, 2021 | [–]

I saw that yesterday and didn't post it because it was too scary lol

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