Study: Glycosylation and disulfide bonding of wild-type SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein.Image Credit: Alpha Tauri 3D Graphics/Shutterstock. Study design. In a recent study posted to the journal ...

Study: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Activates Human Lung Macrophages.Image Credit: piccreative / Shutterstock. About the study. In the present study, researchers evaluated SARS-CoV-2 S glycoprotein ...

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 ...

More information: Oskar Staufer et al, Synthetic virions reveal fatty acid-coupled adaptive immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022 ...

Swank et al. discuss a potential biomarker for identifying Long Covid in their preprint, Persistent circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike is associated with post-acute COVID-19 sequelae. The researchers ...

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been the focus of a lot of research these past two years. It’s what the virus uses to invade host cells and it has been the ...

In humans, lingering spike protein was seen in 10 of 34 skull samples of people who had recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection and died of non-COVID-related causes in 2021 and 2022.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the liver has been widely debated. "Clinical studies conducted in patients with COVID-19 described liver lesions, however, it was ...

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.

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 ...