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

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...

Half a decade since coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 plunged the world into a pandemic, the scars are still healing for those who lost ...

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

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

Here the authors characterise the cellular and molecular progression of lung alveolar damage in severe COVID-19 patients using integrated histopathology and cell atlassing, pinpointing a role for ...

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

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.

Research identifies how viral respiratory infection damages macrophages and suggests treatment with a pre-existing FDA approved drug.

Genome evolution is the process by which a genome changes in structure over time, through mutation, horizontal gene transfer, and sexual reproduction. The study of genome evolution involves ...