The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to lay out a framework to define and describe the data needs for a system to track and correlate viral ...

CoVFit can predict the epidemic potential—i.e., the fitness—of SARS-CoV-2 variants based solely on their spike protein sequences. Viral infectious diseases pose significant challenges due to the rapid ...

Multiple sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral infections have been associated with neurological complications that are potentially attributed to direct ...

New research has uncovered a series of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enhanced the virus' ability to infect the brains of mice. The findings may help scientists understand its ...

How could we forget the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, right? It’s now part of our history, a story to pass on to the next generation. There are hundreds of related SARS-CoV strains known to infect different ...

Conceptual illustration representing interactions between the immune system and SARS-CoV-2. The image reflects broader processes involved in antibody responses and viral adaptation during infection.

Scientists have discovered a mutation in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that plays a key role in its ability to infect the central nervous system. The findings may help scientists ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been controversy surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. New research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine ...