Enlarge / The structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. (credit: University of Arkansas) Over the summer, you could almost hear a sigh of relief rising from the portion of the research community that was tracking the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Viruses, especially those new to their hosts, often pick up mutations that help them […]
Enlarge / Picture of vials of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, seen at the Cotahuma Hospital in La Paz, Bolivia. (credit: Jorge Bernal/Getty Images) Yesterday, the people behind Russia’s leading vaccine, termed Sputnik V, issued a preliminary analysis of its function. The news was quite good: while the trial is […]
Enlarge / Aerial view showing a tractor digging graves in a new area of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida, where COVID-19 victims are buried, in Manaus, Brazil. (credit: Marcio James / Getty Images) While attention has been focused on the worrying new variants of SARS-CoV-2, there has been some good news: despite the evolution of a […]
Enlarge / UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photograph with a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 candidate vaccine. (credit: WPA Pool/Getty Images) This week, the UK released more data on the newly evolved strain of SARS-CoV-2, providing further evidence that it spreads more readily than previously circulating strains of the virus. Despite […]
Expand (charge: CDC.gov) A version of this pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is currently dominating headlines and inspirational precautionary travel bans global. But scientists are still attempting to have a grasp on just what the version can really do otherwise and what it may mean for its almost year old pandemic. Researchers at the United Kingdom–in which […]
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Expand / Researchers across the globe are working not merely to nail the present COVID-19 outbreak, but can also be racing to avoid a much worse outbreak later on. As much harm as the present coronavirus pandemic has imposed on the planet at large–murdering over 230,000 American taxpayers so much, and almost 1.2 million people […]
Expand / This picture of a bust of Alfred Nobel was shot just before the announcement of the winners of this 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 5, 2020. (charge: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / / Getty Images) The very first known human cases of COVID-19 happened […]