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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Mar 30, 2022 · In this Review, we explore recent clinical and experimental advances regarding SARS-CoV-2 pathophysiology and discuss potential mechanisms behind SARS-CoV-2-associated acute respiratory distress ...
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.