A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an antibody that appears to block infection by ...

A new coronavirus variant revived old conspiracy theories this week as widely shared social media posts falsely claimed the omicron variant was nothing but a cover-up for darker agendas. Some online ...

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine evaluated the burden and risk of post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PASC) during the pre-Delta, Delta, and ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...

The new Omicron variant of coronavirus, with its many mutations and seemingly quick spread in South Africa, is worrying scientists and government officials. But doctors want to remind Americans that ...

A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first indication of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. In studies on ...

The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already struggling with a surge of delta cases and upend ...

Scientists know it as XBB.1.5, a name assigned because it is the second generation of the recombinant Omicron subvariant XBB. X is the way scientists designate a recombinant, the result of two viruses ...

And then, the day after the turkey, the pandemic delivered a big new surprise. Researchers in Botswana and South Africa alerted the world that a highly mutated version of the virus had emerged and was ...