The study lands at a fraught political moment. The White House recently asserted that the pandemic had been caused by an accident in a Wuhan, China, lab.

“We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines,” said ...

Days after the US and China again took shots at each other over the origin of COVID-19, researchers have published a genetic ...

The study found that sarbecoviruses related to SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 have circulated around Western China and Southeast ...