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 ...