Animated clip of SARS-CoV-2 fusing with a host cell. To see the full video, click on the image. Covid-19 begins when the SARS-CoV-2 virus first encounters cells in the upper airway that express a ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, a team of researchers investigated the change in the stability, antigenicity, and protein expression of the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike protein. This was a logical first step, but as we've seen, the virus is a moving ...

The discovery of a small molecule in the research lab of Bradley McConnell, professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, may well be the genesis of new medication which ...

A team led by Neil King, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is now exploring a new ...

SAN DIEGO, April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Long COVID or post COVID-19 syndrome, is a clinical entity observed in certain patients wherein symptoms of illness persist for at least several weeks or ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of ceramide (CER) and cholesterol (CHOL) on membrane fusion mediated by the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Grace C Roberts works at the University of Leeds and receives funding from the MRC. The heavily mutated omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first detected in late 2021.