Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to ...

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how quickly zoonotic diseases can spread globally. As a result, scientists worldwide have increased efforts to study viruses circulating in wildlife and improve early ...

A coronavirus vaccine built to stay useful even as viruses change has cleared its first test in people, offering an early ...

The first human clinical trial of a universal Sarbeco coronavirus vaccine, developed by the University of Cambridge and ...

A previously unknown species of coronavirus has been identified in Brazilian bats, named BRZ batCoV, which carries a genetic element strikingly similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the ...

A key step in the origin of many pandemics occurs when an animal-borne virus infects humans and then evolves to spread more ...

More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery. But on 28 February 2023 the controversial claim that the ...

Few people noticed on New Year’s Eve last year when China reported a mystery illness to the World Health Organization. But soon, the never-before-seen coronavirus responsible for the disease was ...

The first known case challenges the notion that the pandemic erupted suddenly. Instead, several peer-reviewed studies ...