Coronavirus: The mutations that haven’t happened yet

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How will mutations to Covid-19 change the way it might respond to a vaccine? This is what Alli Greaney at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center hopes to find out, by cataloguing 4,000 possible mutations that could occur in the ‘receptor binding domain’ and predicting their effects. (Image: Colour enhanced view of coronavirus under a microscope, Credit: Science Photo Library.)