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

Scientists have identified a class of small antibodies that provide strong protection against a broad range of SARS-related coronaviruses. The antibodies target a highly conserved site at the base of ...

The original SARS virus vanished after creating large outbreaks in 2003, and the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus has only infected a small number of people in the Middle East and ...

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).

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to ...

The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, ...

The human body is naturally equipped with defenses to fight off viral infections. For a virus to successfully infect it, it must first overcome these defenses. To do so, viruses have evolved ...

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 ...

The White House replaced the federal government’s hub for news and updates on COVID-19 with a website saying the virus leaked out of a Chinese lab.

The global pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has highlighted the importance of surveillance efforts to closely monitor ...