Bloom Lab
Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with @fredhutch @HHMINEWS @uwgenome. @jbloom_lab@mstdn.science
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I wanted to summarize what is known about the new XBB.1.5 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which is starting to generate a lot of interest. (There are no new scientific results in this thre...
I'm agnostic on its various hypotheses about mechanisms of origin of furin-cleavage sites, but the part of this paper that suggests furin-cleavage site might be present in two of t...
Here's how mutations in #SARSCoV2 Nu variant (B.1.1.529) will affect polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies targeting RBD. These assessments based on deep-mutational scanning experim...