'This virus will ultimately become endemic': Scientists find key in alpha variant to fight omicron

After nine months of research USCF scientists have made a vital discovery that could lead to an endemic.

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"We think we've uncovered a key connection that we can ultimately fight not just this variant, but also future variants that we don't even know about yet," said Dr. Nevan Krogan, Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF. Dr. Krogan welcomed us inside the Quantitative Biosciences Institute lab where his team along with partners across the world uncovered how mutations in the alpha variant are allowing the virus to evade our immune response. The same key mutations outside of the spike protein were also found in the delta and the omicron variant."Certain proteins are being produced at a higher level in that particular virus once the virus infects our cells.

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