A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is rising to prominence in the U.S. as winter illness season approaches its peak: JN.1, yet another descendent of Omicron. JN.1 was first detected in ...

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences applied computational approaches to study the binding mechanisms of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS ...

A recent study published in the journal iScience reported that nanoparticles (NPs) co-displaying spike proteins from different sarbecoviruses improve the breadth of neutralizing responses. Coronavirus ...

The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading ...

In early 2020, multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was recognized as an emerging life-threatening disease occurring 2 to 6 weeks after infection with severe acute respiratory ...

Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate. Two main theories exist: The virus spilled over from an animal into people ...