Quantum mechanical modeling allowed the team to develop an initial set of predictions about the role of mutations on infectivity and immune response evasion of Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants ...

Chinese scientists have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting humans-raising fresh concerns ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) are the first to conduct a molecular-level structural analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant’s spike protein in complex with ...

The researchers compared four spike protein variants: Wuhan, Omicron, and two Omicron-based variants ... which was hypothesized to be involved in binding with ACE2, had not yet been identified by ...

Working with the Omicron variant, the inhibitory effect of ... principle for lysoTRAP's recognition of SARS-CoV-2 is the ACE2 protein, any infective variants that bind ACE2 are sensitive to ...