Omicron variant may come from mice, China study says


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The study — published in the Journal of Genetics and Genomics and can be read on the pre-pint server bioRxiv — looked into why the omicron variant is so different compared to other COVID-19 variants. A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found that the omicron variant “closely resembled the mutations associated with virus evolution in mouse cells,” according to IFL Science. “Furthermore, they say that the mutations show that the virus has adapted to infecting mouse cells,” IFL Science reports. The scientists suggest that the omicron variant may have jumped from mice to humans...