SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe bats. This group also includes the viral strain responsible for the 2002 ...

"We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines," said first author Noor Youssef, a scientific lead for the Predictive Modeling for ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) and the Medical Center—University of Freiburg has ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...