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ONCOTELIC ANNOUNCES THAT ORF8 MUTATIONS ARE DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF THE DELTA AND THE OMICRON VARIANTS.

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

The analysis allows us to position our therapeutic and vaccine platform against ORF8 to address this pandemic as it further mutates.

Key Points: 
  • The analysis allows us to position our therapeutic and vaccine platform against ORF8 to address this pandemic as it further mutates.
  • ORF8 and the evolution of the Delta and Omicron variants.
  • Further mutations of these two residues are creating new lineage trees that are offshoots from the Delta backbone.
  • More importantly the further mutational expansion of the S-protein in the emerging Omicron variant is now followed with the acquisition of ORF8 mutations 119 and 120.