A new study provides early evidence that a Covid-19 vaccine might be effective against two new coronavirus strains first identified in South Africa and the UK, despite a concerning mutation. The two ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

When researchers in China first discovered a new coronavirus spreading amongst the people in the city of Wuhan, they collected samples of the virus and published its genetic code online. Within weeks, ...

Just when it felt like COVID had quietly slipped into the background of everyday life, a new variant is back in the headlines. Reports suggest this strain carries multiple spike protein mutations and ...

The first vaccine to be used en masse against COVID-19 will have to contend with D614G, the latest mutation of SARS-CoV-2 Studies reveal D614G as the new dominant starin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

An immune-compromised man with a year-and-a-half-long COVID infection served as a breeding ground for dozens of coronavirus mutations, a new study discovered. Worse, several of the mutations were in ...

(Reuters) - A specific mutation in the new coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers. The research may explain why early outbreaks in ...

No, it's not a virus covered in stars and stripes.

If there’s one coronavirus mutation that keeps scientists awake at night, it’s E484K. The mutation was found in both the South African variant (B1351) and the Brazilian variant (P1), but not in the UK ...

A new, less error-prone approach to sequencing Sars-CoV-2 genomes has revealed key information on factors responsible for the development of new COVID-19 variants. Researchers at Baylor College of ...

A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. According ...