SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors.

Local Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter works to provide meals for elementary students through its Empower Our Families initiative.

Five years after the Covid pandemic, health experts are finally ready to say that it’s over - With deaths and ...

“The effectiveness of the COVID vaccines can vary depending on which variants are targeted in the vaccine, which variants are circulating, and host factors,” said Shirin A. Mazumder, MD, and ...

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the virus continues to spread around the globe as the virus continues to evolve. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, as the virus finds ...

The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, and the virus will ...

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It ...

Another recent federal study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in February, showed approximately 1.01 million ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would ...