As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters the human body, it breaks into cells with the help of two proteins that it finds there, ACE2 and TMPRSS2. While there has been much discussion of viral infection in ...

There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, and the virus that causes the disease — SARS-CoV-2 — continues evolving and infecting people worldwide. “Whether the pandemic ended ...

COVID-19 has continued to alarm public health, and although several therapeutics and vaccines have been developed, the development of effective vaccines or antibodies is challenging due to mutations ...

In the graphics that follow, Scientific American presents detailed explanations, current as of mid-June, into how SARS-CoV-2 sneaks inside human cells, makes copies of itself and bursts out to ...

The virus binds to the same receptor as SARS-CoV-2, the deadly virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. The research was ...

In pediatric patients aged 6 months to 5 years, the VE of mRNA-1273 against symptomatic infection was modest after a single dose and strong after a second dose.