SARS-CoV-2 - Latest research and news | Nature
Oct 14, 2024 · SARS-CoV-2 articles from across Nature Portfolio. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 - Nature
Oct 6, 2020 · In this Review, we describe the basic virology of SARS-CoV-2, including genomic characteristics and receptor use, highlighting its key difference from previously known coronaviruses.
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Apr 5, 2023 · This Review explores the mechanisms that generate genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2, underlying the within-host and population-level processes that underpin these events.
First encounter with SARS-CoV-2: immune portraits of COVID
Jun 19, 2024 · Controlled infection with SARS-CoV-2 of people who hadn’t previously been exposed to the virus reveals how molecular and cellular signatures of the immune response portend effective defence ...
Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution - Nature
Dec 7, 2021 · The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months.
Origins of SARS-CoV-2: window is closing for key scientific studies
Aug 25, 2021 · In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many of these farms are now closed and the animals have been culled, making any evidence of early coronavirus spillover increasingly difficult to find.
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert
Aug 21, 2023 · Large numbers of spike mutations have been observed in people with long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections, and it is likely that BA.2.86 emerged from one such chronic infection, says Jesse Bloom, a viral ...
Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne - Nature
Apr 6, 2022 · But this latest tweak is the WHO’s clearest statement yet about airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. And it places the virus among a select group of ‘airborne’ infections, a label long ...
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Medicine
Mar 17, 2020 · The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (red bar at top) was aligned against the most closely related SARS-CoV-like coronaviruses and SARS-CoV itself.
SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions - Nature
Jan 15, 2024 · In this Review, we provide an updated summary of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle, gene function and virus–host interactions, including recent landmark findings on general aspects of coronavirus ...