Many proteins have a complex architecture that enables biological functions. Molecules can bind to specific sites on a protein and alter its function. A team at HZB has now investigated the Nsp1 ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Two of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 — a pair of bat coronaviruses discovered by researchers in Laos — may transmit poorly in people despite being genetically similar to the ...

World Health Organization officials first learned about a cluster of cases of pneumonia in the Hubei Province of China on Dec. 31, 2019. This represented the initial report of what soon became known ...

Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a human heart cell ...

The SARS-like virus has killed two more people, bringing the death toll to 11. March 27, 2013— -- The mysterious SARS-like virus that appears to be originating in the Middle East has claimed two ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the ...

Researchers identify specific immune markers, like activated monocytes and cytokines, that drive cognitive decline after viral infections across various diseases.

Two of the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 -- a pair of bat coronaviruses discovered by researchers in Laos -- may transmit poorly in people despite being genetically similar to the ...