If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A team of international researchers has used the SARS-CoV-2 genome to study the origin ...

Turns out, SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 — was making evolutionary leaps and bounds in one specific group of people. "When the virus jumps from person to person ...

It is different from more traditional vaccines, which often use a weakened or dead version of a virus, or a laboratory-generated protein. The core of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is a single strip ...

World public health agencies are tracking a highly mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19. The newly discovered strain, referred to as BA.2.86, has been designated as a "variant under ...

Here’s what we know about the history of the coronavirus that was first detected in late 2019 and set off a global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, got its name based on its ...