The new corona virus has developed mutations in itself that allow it to easily infect human cells.
This was revealed in a medical study conducted in the United States.
Research from the Scrappers Research Institute found that the genetic system of the new corona virus has undergone changes that have made it even more powerful.
Researchers say more research is needed into what kind of changes have taken place in the corona virus, but these changes could potentially explain why so many people around the world are still infected with the virus.
Research has shown that genetic changes have taken place in the spike protein of the virus, which is the upper structure of the virus that it uses to enter human cells.
If the results are confirmed, it will be the first time anyone has seen changes in the virus during the outbreak.
Viruses become more contagious after genetic mutations, the researchers said.
The study comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that changes in the new corona virus so far would not affect the effectiveness of the vaccines currently being developed.
Last week, the World Health Organization said the virus would not spread more easily and would not make people seriously ill.
In this new study, researchers found in laboratory experiments that a mutation called D614G increased the spikes or thorns in the virus and made it more stable, making it easier for it to enter cells.
The study was not published in a medical journal, but was published in the preprint server BioRxiv, meaning it has not been reviewed by other experts.
However, the researchers said that the results show why the virus is spreading so easily and rapidly in the United States and Latin American countries.
"It's very important because it proves that the virus is changing and using the changes to its advantage, it has done a great job of harmonizing human culture," he said.
He added that a change in mid-January made the virus more contagious, but that did not mean it was more deadly, but it was 10 times more contagious than before.
Other research reports have suggested the same thing, and a study by the Los Alamos Laboratory in April called the mutation D614G a matter of concern because it is the most common type in Europe and the United States. Had become
The study found that it began to spread in Europe in early February and quickly became the dominant species when it reached new regions.
But researchers said at the time that more research was needed to prove that the mutation in the virus did not become the most common type of accident.
Now, in a new study, the research team proved it in 3 different experiments.
They discovered that this change not only allowed the virus to take over the cells more easily, but also made it easier for them to enter.
When viruses infect someone, they take over the infected person's cells, turn them into viral factories, and begin to replicate themselves.
A study by the University of Cambridge in the UK in April claimed that an outbreak of the new novel corona virus may have started in mid-September last year and did not start in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The Cambridge University study is working to find the root cause of the Code 19 epidemic, and the research team hopes to identify the first person to become the first victim of the virus, after which it can spread further. Started
During the study, the study looked at more than 1,000 complete genomes of the corona virus whose sequences were developed from human patients.
The virus was later divided into type A, B and C based on genetic mutations, and the type A type A virus may have been transmitted from bats to pangolins in humans.
Type A was discovered among Chinese and American citizens, with modified versions reaching Australia and the United States.
According to the research, in most of the cases in Wuhan, the type A virus was not seen but the type B virus was active, which indicates that it started to change from an event there.
The Type C version originated in the abdomen of the Type B, which appeared in early cases in Europe, while patients in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong were also found, but no signs of it were found in China.
According to the researchers, the data collected show that the Corona virus epidemic began to spread between September 13 and December 7 and is based on the rate of change in the virus.
However, the scientists said that the time estimate may be wrong, but at the moment this estimate seems to be correct, in this regard, more patient samples will be analyzed.
Peter Forster, head of the research team, said the outbreak may not have started in Wuhan because the type B virus was detected in all patients there, but in 7 out of 11 genomes in Guangdong Province, 500 miles from Wuhan. As seen A, this number is very small because the number of genomes in the early stages of the epidemic was very small.
The study identified 198 strains of the virus, and researchers said they could not say whether the changes made the virus more or less deadly and contagious.
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