CHANGES WITHIN THE P681 RESIDUE OF SPIKE DICTATE CELL FUSION AND SYNCYTIA FORMATION OF DELTA AND OMICRON VARIANTS OF SARS-COV-2 WITH NO EFFECTS ON NEUTRALIZATION OR INFECTIVITY

Changes within the P681 residue of spike dictate cell fusion and syncytia formation of Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 with no effects on neutralization or infectivity

The rapid spread and dominance of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 lineages have posed severe health challenges worldwide.While extensive research on the role of the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) in promoting viral infectivity and vaccine sensitivity has been well documented, the functional significance of the 681PRRAR/SV687 polybasic motif of the viral spik

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Toward a Revised Understanding of Young Children’s Musical Activities: Reflections from the “Day in the Life” Project

The tradition Canopies of developmental psychology as been of fundamental importance in providing versions of musical childhoods, particularly for the earliest years of childhood.However, in its focus on the individual child and in its search for musical behaviors assumed to be common across all children, developmental psychology has tended to be i

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