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GUANGZHOU, China -- A team of international scientists landed Thursday in this city just west of Hong Kong and set to work hunting clues to the origins of a fatal flu-like illness as the worldwide ...
SARS may have originated in wild bats in China, an international team of scientists report this week in Science. The family of bats carrying the virus is widespread in Asia and is distributed across ...
A new international study provides a shortlist of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The ...
New research has uncovered a series of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enhanced the virus' ability to infect the brains of mice. The findings may help scientists understand its ...
Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 104, No. 2 (2021), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the psychological well-being of healthcare professionals, among them, on medical and nursing ...