Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

The WHO has classified XFG or ‘Stratus’ as a variant under monitoring. It may well become the dominant variant globally very ...

SARS-CoV-2 articles from across Nature Portfolio SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

By improving sensitivity and boosting signal amplification, nanomaterials are heralding a new era for biomarker detection.

As part of a person's first line of defense against viruses and other microbes that cause illness and disease, a whole network of proteins and other molecules detect and respond to intruders, which ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.