In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the mechanism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-associated inflammatory marker interferon ...
A recent Journal of Experimental Medicine study reports that hybrid immunity induced by both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and previous severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...
Researchers create minimalistic Sars-CoV-2 virions and discover the spike protein switching mechanism. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and their collaborators ...
When SARS cases broke out among human beings for the first time, early this year, it didn't take long for scientists around the world to begin collaborating on ways to stop the disease. Reporting from ...
Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the world ...
A new variant named omicron (B.1.1.529) was reported by researchers in South Africa on Nov. 24, 2021, and designated a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization two days later. Omicron is ...
While various biopharmas are working on vaccines that could protect against multiple strains of COVID-19, researchers in the U.S. have reported early success in a shot that goes even further—offering ...
New research unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry receptor. New research shows that the closest bat virus relatives of the ...