A single change in a key viral protein may have helped the coronavirus behind COVID-19 make the jump from animals to people, setting the virus on its way to becoming the scourge it is today. That ...

RaTG13 is a SARS-related coronavirus found in bats and is highly similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Specifically, the spike domain is highly similar, ...

Here’s everything we know so far. Given everything that happened with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s understandable to feel nervous when you hear about a new virus. Now, reports are swirling about a new ...

A leading critic of the National Institutes of Health contends the federal agency “put at risk” U.S. public health and national security by funding a bat coronavirus research project by EcoHealth ...

Researchers in China have discovered a new bat coronavirus, similar to the one that led to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic that ...

Chinese scientists wanted to genetically engineer coronaviruses that were more infectious to humans and then conduct experiments on live bats about 18 months before the first COVID-19 cases emerged — ...

SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 8, 2021 -- Mei Yiqi R puts boxes containing nucleic acid samples into the lab of a testing institute in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 8, 2021. Mei Yiqi, 30, who ...

Shi Zhengli, the deputy director of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, has said that to date, no students or staff members at the research center have been infected with the new coronavirus. Dubbed ...

Researchers in China and Australia have reported the discovery of novel bat coronaviruses that further reveal the diversity and complex evolutionary history of these viruses. In early 2020, the novel ...