The research hopes to better understand the role played by the virus' spike protein in terms of how harmful a variant is.
To do this, scientists at Boston University's biosafety 4 research lab attached the more immune evading Omicron spike protein to the "backbone" of an original Covid virus from the start of the pandemic.
"We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant," the paper published on biorxiv awaiting peer review reads.
Speaking for the first time since her entire tax-cutting agenda was reversed by her new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, Truss admitted on Monday night that mistakes were made but insisted she is going nowhere and would lead the Conservative Party into the next general election. With rebellious voices within her party growing louder in recent days, the Tory leader insisted that she remains focussed on her economic growth mission of “delivering for the British people”.
Britain's competition regulator ordered Facebook-owner Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy on Tuesday after its view that the acquisition reduced innovation in the advertising market was upheld by a tribunal in the summer.
Meta said it would accept the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) order to unwind the 2020 deal.
The island of 22 million people is caught in the throes of a severe foreign exchange shortage that has left it struggling to import sufficient essentials including medicine, fertilizer and food.
But one of the biggest challenges has been finding dollars for diesel and petrol imports for vehicles and power generation with the country seeing long lines, sometimes running into kilometres (miles) during the worst of the crisis, and power cuts that have been ongoing for eight months.
Daniel Rendón Herrera, better known as Don Mario, led the right-wing paramilitary group United Self-Defence Forces (AUC).
The group, originally formed to combat left-wing guerrillas, engaged in kidnappings, killings, and extortion.
Don Mario, 57, was captured in a rural hideaway in 2009. At the time, he was the most wanted kingpin in Colombia.
He was extradited to the United States in 2018 and last year pleaded guilty to trafficking more than 80 tonnes of cocaine to the US.
The strike, which will primarily affect the public sector such as schools and transportation, is an extension of the weeks-long industrial action that has disrupted France’s major refineries and put petrol stations’ supply in disarray.
Trade union leaders are hoping workers will be energised by the government’s decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots to try and get the fuel flowing again, a move some say has jeopardised the right to strike.
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