It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about ...

A phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 sequences, built with Nextstrain, displays sequences colored by their clade and organized by collection date. Over time, sequences mutate and diverge, forming new ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were ...

The new virus, too, was discovered in the bats first..New coronavirus variant , China New Coronavirus , HKU5 COV-2 ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors.

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Being sugar-coated doesn’t just help the medicine go down, as the song goes, but it can also help a virus evade the immune ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been observed to infect human neurons ... develop neurodegenerative diseases also carry other susceptibility factors, such as genetic mutations, that make them vulnerable to ...

Back in 2021, at the height of the pandemic, scientists at Pfizer revealed the development of a novel antiviral molecule, ...

Identification of HKU5-CoV-2 (a member of the HKU5 lineage 2), a new merbecovirus found in bats of Zhejiang, Anhui, and ...