As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

Small-molecule inhibitors targeting viral proteins could serve as an effective alternative for controlling the spread of COVID-19 at both individual and community levels. In this vein, a recent study ...

For the study, they focused on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein – the part of the virus responsible for helping it enter human cells – and used a protein language model to predict potential new mutations ...

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Early animal studies show that a single vaccine could protect the recipient from different variants of the coronaviruses that cause COVID-19, the flu and the common cold. In addition to creating ...

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

Analysis - More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we're still facing the regular emergence of new variants ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors. Blocking this interaction with inhibitors could prevent ...

Being sugar-coated doesn’t just help the medicine go down, as the song goes, but it can also help a virus evade the immune ...