A research team led by distinguished professor Giuseppe Pezzotti at the Biomedical Engineering Center, Kansai Medical University (Japan), has demonstrated that differences in the molecular structures ...

New findings raise concerns about the potential effects of maternal COVID-19 infection on early nervous system development.

Human neural stem cells that help form the brain and spinal cord are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, including omicron ...

Antibodies are an important defense against SARS-CoV-2, but the virus continues to evolve ways to evade them. Now, researchers have mapped how antibodies target a key region of the virus's spike ...

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants emerged in 2022 with >30 novel mutations in the spike alone. While most studies focus on receptor binding domain changes, mutations in the C-terminus of S1 (CTS1), adjacent ...

SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate globally at high levels and to evolve into new variants. SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate ...

The southernmost part of Thailand is a unique and culturally diverse region that has been greatly affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak during the ...

A laboratory study used Raman barcodes to distinguish 20 SARS-CoV-2 strains and subvariants through RNA molecular ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from more than 90 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in over 40 countries dedicated to advancing research, ...

While headlines warn that AI could unleash future biological threats, the technology also offers our best defense: a way to anticipate viral evolution and stress-test treatments. Rather than waiting ...

Cryo-EM and functional assays show that the JN.4-specific A475V substitution remodels the SARS-CoV-2 RBD large loop and ...

Japanese researchers distinguished 20 SARS-CoV-2 variants and subvariants using Raman spectra of extracted RNA.