LONDON — A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K. amid worries that it could make the virus even more transmissible and undermine Covid-19 vaccines further.
A COVID-19 strain carrying an unusually high number of mutations is drawing attention from public health officials as it turns up in wastewater samples, airport screenings, and nasal swabs across the ...
The new SARS-CoV-2 saltation variant PJ.2.1, first detected in Canada in May 2026. It is now spreading across North America, ...
We're keeping an eye on new influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viral variants. Here's what we know about those viruses—and your immune system's ability to fight back. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
Newswise — Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based ...
A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited genetic channels. These genetic limits have ...
A review in Discover Viruses compares bioinformatics pipelines for genomic surveillance across SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, mpox, avian ...
Flu season is picking up months ahead of schedule with a mutated virus spreading in some parts of the United States, surprising some people who might not even be thinking about their annual flu shots ...
Two of the seven defining mutations in the Delta variant spike protein arose through C→G transversions, a mutation type that is normally very rare in SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Nearly one-third of the ...
A Belgian case report traced virological failure of long-acting cabotegravir/rilpivirine to an NNRTI resistance mutation ...