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.
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 ...
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during multiple Omicron variant
Feb 2, 2024 · SARS-CoV-2 reinfections increased substantially after Omicron variants emerged. Large-scale community-based comparisons across multiple Omicron waves of reinfection characteristics, risk factors ...
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 ...
COVID’s future: mini-waves rather than seasonal surges
May 1, 2023 · The combination of rapid mutation and short-lived human immunity is probably preventing SARS-CoV-2 from settling into seasonal patterns of circulation, says Wenseleers.
SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and
Dec 14, 2022 · We show that SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, predominantly among patients who died with severe COVID-19, and that virus replication is present in multiple respiratory and non-respiratory tissues ...
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.
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Medicine
Mar 17, 2020 · The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (red bar at top) was aligned against the most closely related SARS-CoV-like coronaviruses and SARS-CoV itself.