The family history of SARS-CoV-2 is not what virologists expected — and it sheds light on the coronavirus that launched a pandemic. Check out our illustration of the virus's family tree.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus hijacks our cellular power plants known as mitochondria. A new study hypothesizes that could potentially explain long Covid.

A SARS-CoV-2 virus particle, known technically as a virion, is about 90 nanometres (billionths of a metre) ... (see diagram). Together these account for just a third of the genome.

Controlled human infection models (CHIMs) have been proposed as a strategy for accelerating SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. Commentaries have focused on the ethical considerations raised by such ...

SARS-2 is actually much closer to a previously isolated bat coronavirus than it is to SARS-1. The region that binds to the receptor much more closely resembles that of a pangolin coronavirus.

After a detective hunt across China, researchers chasing the origin of the deadly SARS virus have finally found their smoking gun. In a remote cave in Yunnan province, virologists have identified ...