Coronaviruses have found another door into human cells, and it is one that scientists were not watching. A bat virus isolated from heart-nosed bats in Kenya can latch onto a human protein called ...

A newly characterized bat coronavirus can latch onto a human cell receptor found in the lung, giving scientists an important new clue about how some animal viruses may cross into people. Study: ...

An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells. While the virus—Cardioderma cor coronavirus (CcCoV) KY43, or CcCoV-KY43—can bind to ...

Huan Yan is in the State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China. Tackling this question is difficult because ...

Despite vaccines and treatments, SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—continues to pose a global health threat, driven by new variants and its ability to hijack human cells in ways that still ...

Preliminary research sheds light on a new point of entry for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Keeping up to date with the various ways in which the human body becomes vulnerable to infection remains prescient as ...

Newswise — The technology, called the Viral-Engineered RNA-based Activation System (VERAS), hijacks the virus’s own replication machinery to switch on reporter or therapeutic genes precisely in ...

BETHESDA, Md. - Scientists at the National Institutes of Health said they have gained new insight into the coronavirus alpha and delta variants, possibly explaining why the mutations are more ...