The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies.

Scientists have developed a simulation method incorporating quantum mechanics to model the electronic structure of nearly ...

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Researchers review the ever-growing list of human viruses, examining their diversity, transmission pathways, and the urgent ...

And you're watching Coronavirus in Context. A lot of folks have questions about these mutations, these strands. Should we be worried about it? And how are people rating the distribution plan of ...

The second possibility is that Covid has now settled into a rut, which will see it become progressively milder until it ultimately becomes akin to the common cold. Chin-Hong says that this would make ...

Japan has coughed and spluttered its way through winter this year, with average flu cases at a record high earlier in the ...

The spike protein of the coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, binds to ACE2, a receptor on the host cells, which allows the virus to enter the cells and infect it. Binding is the first step for infection, and ...

Introduction of a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine: A robust cross-immunity effect to combat virus mutations. SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally ...

SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that spreads COVID-19. The study, led by immunologist Declan McCole at the University of California, Riverside, shows that a loss-of-function variant in the phosphatase gene ...

“These could be more transmissible than the mother virus,” said Dr. John. Thousands of COVID-19 mutations have been detected across the globe since the outbreak of the pandemic last yea ...