It's been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 shifts to endemic status, questions about ...

As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

However, mutations in the spike protein can alter its structure, reducing the effectiveness of these inhibitors. In a significant breakthrough, researchers have developed COVID-19 eliminative Short ...

COVID-19 as a whole is still a major national and international health concern. So far this year, there have been close to 45 ...

Analysis - More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we're still facing the regular emergence of new variants ...

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Quantum mechanical modeling allowed the team to develop an initial set of predictions about the role of mutations on infectivity and immune response evasion of Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants ...

Early animal studies show that a single vaccine could protect the recipient from different variants of the coronaviruses that ...

Being sugar-coated doesn’t just help the medicine go down, as the song goes, but it can also help a virus evade the immune ...

But predicting which mutations would be most successful ... that connects the thermodynamic properties of the virus's spike protein to its ability to spread. The key player in SARS-CoV-2's ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system.

However, mutations in the spike protein can alter its structure, reducing the effectiveness of these inhibitors. In a significant breakthrough, a research team led by Professor Yoshinori Fujiyoshi and ...