Even as the omicron COVID-19 variant continues to sweep the globe, scientists are now monitoring a new mutation of omicron, dubbed BA.2. The World Health Organization maintains that BA.2 is not a ...

A blue gloved hand in the lab holding tubes of blood identified with the label COVID-19 New Variant. The COVID-19 pandemic was the third leading cause of death globally in 2020 and the second in 2021, ...

New research from UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) has found that the two most prevalent strains of the virus that cause ...

More than five years after its initial emergence, COVID-19 continues to evolve, with the World Health Organization (WHO) recently designating XFG, nicknamed “Stratus,” as a new variant under ...

Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir use was associated with substantially lower rates of COVID-19-related hospitalization among high-risk outpatients.

A visual representation of the novel in silico methodology used in the study: prediction of protein structure, molecular docking simulations, and statistical analysis of computational metrics. New ...

Since December 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has posed a worldwide threat. The emergence of the BA.2.86 variant, a subvariant of Omicron, has raised significant ...

Researchers from Japan findings indicate that JN.1 has a higher ability to spread than some prevalent variants like BA.2.86.1 and HK.3, potentially making it the dominant strain globally. Since ...