The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic, has pushed the world towards developing rushed but effective vaccines against the ...

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 ...

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched ...

In the most comprehensive autopsy tissue study conducted to date, researchers have found traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus throughout the entire body, from the brain and the heart to the eyes. The ...

Evolution optimizes all creatures, from viruses to elephants, to their environment. Where do new variants come from, especially Omicron which is so different from previous variants? There may be a ...

This week the Omicron sub-type BA.2 became dominant in the U.S., demonstrating that more than two years into the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, continues to evolve and spread. The ...

Scientists have shown that they can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the air by using a nanotechnology-packed bubble that spills its chemical contents like a broken piñata when ...

SARS-CoV-2 seems to be constantly changing. In the span of just two years, alpha, beta, delta, lambda, mu and omicron have all made headlines. And that list doesn't include dozens of other variants ...