SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.

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

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

When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, we saw how quickly the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved. New variants emerged with mutations that increased transmissibility or helped the virus evade our immune ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 has been very good at mutating to keep infecting people—so good that most antibody treatments ...

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

German intelligence agency BND had assessed in 2020 that the possibility of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19 disease, ...

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

A team has found two antibodies that can work together to neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19 in all its current known variations in a laboratory environment. More research is needed, but the ...

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

Scientists found that it can bind to human ACE2 receptors, similar to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus behind COVID-19). This suggests it has the potential for animal-to-human transmission. Experts note that ...