Volume 32, No 7, Jul 2022

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 32 Issue 7, July 2022: 601-602

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Up or down: where comes Omicron?

Zezhong Liu¹ , Lu Lu¹ , Shibo Jiang^1,2,*

¹Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/NHC/CAMS), Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Pathogenic Microbes and Infection, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
²Department of Infectious Diseases and Shenzhen Key Lab of Endogenous Infection, Shenzhen Nanshan People’s Hospital and the 6th affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Correspondence: Shibo Jiang(shibojiang@fudan.edu.cn)

The current dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron BA.2 has spread globally within only two months. Recent works published in Cell Research and Science reveal the molecular basis of increased transmissibility of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 and their possible mouse origin.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-022-00675-1

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