New study provides deep insights into transmission and mutation properties of SARS-CoV-2

(CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) In the COVID-19 pandemic, 57 million people have already been infected worldwide. In the search for vaccines and therapies, a precise understanding of the virus is crucial. A recent study by CeMM Principal Investigator Andreas Bergthaler's research group makes an important contribution to this. The high quality of epidemiological data in Austria, together with state-of-the-art virus genome sequencing, has supported...