Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body's ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered ...

I'll never understand why masking isn't required - or even just strongly encouraged - in all medical facilities, or, at the very least, in hospitals. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Nepal, March 5 -- 2003, when severe acute respiratory syndrome-1 (SARS-CoV-1) first emerged in China, it triggered a global alert, including in Nepal. I was then working as a junior medical officer, ...

Many proteins have a complex architecture that enables biological functions. Molecules can bind to specific sites on a ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Many proteins have a complex architecture that enables biological functions. Molecules can bind to specific sites on a protein and alter its function. A team at HZB has now investigated the Nsp1 ...

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Higher cardiorespiratory fitness linked to lower COVID-19 hospitalization risk, but not SARS-CoV-2 infection, in a large population cohort.

Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is ...