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What is Immune Imprinting?
Immune imprinting is a phenomenon occurring in the human body. Scientists recently found that this phenomenon may make the COVID boosters less effective. Bivalent, Mono Valent, boosters, and variant-specific boosters are to go powerless due to the immune imprinting phenomenon. Immune imprinting is the human body replicating its immune system. During immune imprinting, rather than ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • Immune imprinting • mutants
What is Breakthrough Infection?
The public health experts recently announced that the increase in “breakthrough infections” in the country may be due to the mutant varieties. What are Breakthrough infections? The Breakthrough infections are those where the COVID-19 virus (or any other virus) is detected in a person who has received two (or prescribed number) doses of vaccines. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: breakthrough infection • COVID-19 vaccines • Double Mutant virus • Immune system • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) • mutants
COVISHIELD protects against Double Mutant
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology recently announced that COVISHILED vaccine protects against B.1.617 variant. It is also called the double mutant strain. The vaccines were tested against the double mutant variety using the Vitro Neutralisation assay. Vitro Neutralisation Assay It is used to detect if an antibody is capable of preventing virus replication. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: B.1.1.617 • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology • COVID-19 vaccine • Covishield • Double mutant variant • INSACOG • mutants