The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The first study to analyze the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from Houston ...
With support from the National Institutes of Health, the COBRE Center for RNA Biology in Health and Disease will create a ...
Overview of the process of obtaining genomic diversity of influenza virus in a population replicated from a single particle. (a) MDCK cells were infected with influenza vi ...
The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for ...
Rotavirus causes severe dehydrating diarrhea in infants and young children, contributing to more than 128,500 deaths per year ...
In what may be one of the most important HIV research breakthroughs in years, scientists have discovered a strikingly ...
In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim ...
Magnetically guided microrobots coated with bacteriophages penetrate and dismantle bacterial biofilms, achieving targeted ...
Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...
Human noroviruses, GII.4 strains in particular, are the chief drivers of acute viral gastroenteritis around the world, a condition for which there are no vaccines or antivirals. Understanding how ...