Viruses are finely tuned to their hosts, but mutations can and have produced strains that can jump from animals into humans. Sara Sawyer, a virologist at the BioFrontiers Institute of the University ...
A new, nano-scale look at how the SARS-CoV-2 virus replicates in cells may offer greater precision in drug development, a Stanford University team reports in Nature Communications. Using advanced ...
These changes in its genome favor the virus's ability to spread and adapt to mammals, such as cows. In March 2024, an outbreak of avian flu was first detected in dairy cows, specifically on farms in ...
Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday its experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented hamsters from getting severely ill, as the drugmaker seeks to begin large, late-stage studies in humans later this ...
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🧠 Long Covid: neurons disrupted

Several months after contracting Covid-19, symptoms can persist in some patients. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur show in an animal model that SARS-CoV-2 infects the brain and persists for up ...
Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...