The virus has a special feature, called a furin cleavage site, that helps it enter cells through the ACE2 receptor protein ...

Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have shared warnings of a new strain of Covid found in bats which ...

A media report underscores that the virus, found by a Chinese team of virologists, uses the same human receptor as the virus ...

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19, a media ...

A new highly infectious strain of coronavirus has been found in China by the researcher famed for her work at the Wuhan ...

Researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by Shi Zhengli, discovered a new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, in bats. While it ...

The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory ...

The study that found the new bat coronavirus was led by Shi Zhengli, a renowned virologist known as “batwoman" due to her ...

Pfizer and Moderna stocks bucked the trend and soared after the news of a potential "deadlier version of Covid." ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting human cells, sparking renewed ...

Experts note that HKU5-CoV-2 has a lower binding affinity to human ACE2 than SARS-CoV-2, and its ability to infect humans on ...

A new coronavirus has been found in bats that closely resembles the one that led to the 2020 pandemic, according to ...