Tag: Coronavirus

“COVID-19. I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine. COVID-19.” That’s how Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization ...

An apartment building in Hong Kong, its units linked by pipes. A department store in the eastern Chinese city of ...

Today marked the conclusion of a 2-day global research meeting in Geneva aiming to set priorities to answer key questions ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted its most recent 2019 novel coronavirus response update call on February ...

Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 that’s currently spreading ...

In the final weeks of 2019, a virus slipped furtively from animal to human somewhere in the Chinese city of ...

As the new coronavirus, called COVID-19, spreads rapidly around the globe, the international community is scrambling to keep up. Scientists ...

WHO locks down a naming convention for the disease caused by novel coronaviruses. As for the virus itself (2019-nCoV), the ...

A new University of California, Berkeley, study finds that bats' fierce immune response to viruses could drive viruses to replicate ...

The coronavirus epidemic in China has now claimed more lives than the SARS outbreak of 2002 and 2003. The number ...

The coronavirus research field is small and modestly funded, and until very recently, was not viewed as a fertile patch ...

In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation. Dr. ...

A top biosecurity expert says the US and the world aren’t ready for a big, mass-casualty pandemic. In this interview, ...

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and three other senators Friday urged the Trump Administration to fully fund pandemic preparedness and response ...

The Protein Data Bank archive, which contains more than 160,000 3D structures for proteins, DNA, and RNA, this month released ...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed to the international community for $675 million to boost international ...

Insilico Medicine announced today that it will publish structures of small molecules targeting the key protein SARS-CoV-2 (formerly 2019-nCoV) 3C-like ...

Steroids should be avoided in the treatment of the current novel coronavirus, experts have advised. A commentary article published in The ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced steps to ensure America’s health care facilities and clinical laboratories ...

A Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) was issued on Feb. 6 to highlight the urgent need for research on the ...