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.

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.

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

Their research showed that the viruses most similar to SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that caused the pandemic, circulate in bats that live roughly 1,000 miles away from Wuhan. Scientists from Dr. Shi ...

Many people worry that a Wuhan coronavirus outbreak that killed 17 could be a repeat of the deadly SARS pandemic in 2003 that killed hundreds and wrecked havoc on Hong Kong’s economy. A lot has ...

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.

SARS – and other big, bad diseases --still scare us. Sometimes what we learn isn’t through what is said, but through what is not. Although SARS occurred a decade ago, an inordinate number ...

The study tested SARS-CoV-2 virus titers and LRV against a single concentration of Xlear nasal spray. According to the Study, “After a 25-minute contact time, ...

The SARS virus killed about 10% of all infected individuals, while the MERS outbreak identified in 2012 had a fatality rate of around 35%. Fatality rate. For every 50 people that were infected, ...

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 ...

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 ...