SARS-CoV-2 - Latest research and news | Nature
Oct 14, 2024 · SARS-CoV-2 articles from across Nature Portfolio. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 - Nature
Oct 6, 2020 · In this Review, we describe the basic virology of SARS-CoV-2, including genomic characteristics and receptor use, highlighting its key difference from previously known coronaviruses.
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Apr 5, 2023 · This Review explores the mechanisms that generate genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2, underlying the within-host and population-level processes that underpin these events.
Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne - Nature
Apr 6, 2022 · But this latest tweak is the WHO’s clearest statement yet about airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. And it places the virus among a select group of ‘airborne’ infections, a label long ...
First encounter with SARS-CoV-2: immune portraits of COVID
Jun 19, 2024 · Controlled infection with SARS-CoV-2 of people who hadn’t previously been exposed to the virus reveals how molecular and cellular signatures of the immune response portend effective defence ...
Contact-tracing app predicts risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Dec 21, 2023 · The risk of catching COVID-19 as calculated by a smartphone app scales with the probability of subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, showing that digital contact tracing is ...
Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert
Aug 21, 2023 · Large numbers of spike mutations have been observed in people with long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections, and it is likely that BA.2.86 emerged from one such chronic infection, says Jesse Bloom, a viral ...
Origins of SARS-CoV-2: window is closing for key scientific studies
Aug 25, 2021 · In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many of these farms are now closed and the animals have been culled, making any evidence of early coronavirus spillover increasingly difficult to find.
Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned …
Apr 19, 2023 · Once severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is diagnosed, anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapies are ideally administered to outpatients as soon as possible so that the viral ...
Viral kinetics of sequential SARS-CoV-2 infections - Nature
Oct 5, 2023 · We compared the SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics of first vs. second infections in this group, adjusting for viral variant, vaccination status, and age.