Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

In a research published in the PLOS Journal, the scientists in China have revealed about some never-before-seen viruses in the bats that live close to humans. These viruses are quite closely related ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

When the first reports of a new COVID-19 variant emerge, scientists worldwide scramble to answer a critical question: Will ...

A study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or ...

Alarmingly, scientists have recently discovered a new coronavirus variant in China, named HKU5-CoV-2, which they say is only a small mutation away from being able to infect humans. So, Covid-19, our ...

It likely jumped from animals to humans, the experts said in their final report Friday. However, a critical component of the investigation was missing: Despite repeated requests, the group was not ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a worldwide threat and effective antiviral drugs and vaccines are being developed in a joint global effort. However, some elderly and ...

If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be ...

Children and adolescents have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with uninfected individuals, according to results of a study in Nature Communications.

A new SARS-CoV-2 variant, NB.1.8.1, may now account for more than one-third of all COVID-19 cases in the US, health officials say.

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.