Chinese researchers have unveiled a crucial mutation in the Ebola virus that significantly enhanced its infectivity during a ...

Chinese scientists studying the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in Congo found a mutation, GP-V75A, that made the virus spread ...

A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...

(Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. New ...

Chinese researchers have identified a crucial mutation in the Ebola virus that significantly enhanced its infectivity during ...

A global study has found strong evidence that a new form of the coronavirus has spread from Europe to the US. The new mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make ...

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), protrudes like a spike from the cell surface. When the virus enters the human body, it attaches to ...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 may have been partly due to changes in the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus wrought by an early mutation in its genome, a detailed analysis by RIKEN researchers suggests ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

Health officials have confirmed Japan now has many cases of a new variant of the novel coronavirus that could make currently available COVID-19 vaccines less effective. The mutated strain of the virus ...

As a mutation of the Delta variant, AY.4.2, causes a spike in Covid cases in the UK, India too has reported a few cases of this latest variant. Experts says that it is still too early to determine its ...

A certain mutation in the COVID-19 Delta variant causes infected cells to form disruptive chunks in the lungs and leads to more serious symptoms of the disease, a research team said. If the cells in ...