Mar 19, 2020 by News Staff

An analysis of the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19 disease, and related coronaviruses found no evidence that the virus...

Mar 18, 2020 by News Staff

A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019 and is now causing...

Mar 16, 2020 by News Staff

Researchers from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, have released a special report in which they provide an overview of previously published...

Mar 12, 2020 by News Staff

Scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology, the J. Craig Venter Institute and the University of California, San Diego used existing data from known...

Feb 27, 2020 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Alberta and Gilead Sciences, Inc. have discovered that the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir is effective in treating...

Feb 17, 2020 by News Staff

In a review of previous studies, a team of researchers from Sweden, Germany and China found the average reproduction number (R0) for the COVID-19 coronavirus...

Feb 11, 2020 by News Staff

According to a review of previous studies, published online February 6, 2020 in the Journal of Hospital Infection, human coronaviruses such as Severe Acute...

Feb 10, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, the Queen’s Medical Research Institute Edinburgh, and Roslin...

Feb 3, 2020 by News Staff

In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina has analyzed the potential receptor usage by...

Jan 31, 2020 by The Conversation

As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...