An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...

In a recent study posted to bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers found frequent recombination of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronaviruses (SL-CoVs) with diverse gene pools. Study: ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed monkeypox (MPX) virus (MPXV) sequences during the current 2022 outbreak to investigate whether MPXV is adapting for ...

Homologous recombination is an event in which parts of a genome from different parent lineages are combined to form a new lineage. This can occur for coronaviruses when a single cell is co-infected, ...

In January 2022, around the time that the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 started spreading rapidly, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) led by Shashank Tripathi, Assistant ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is threatening to surge again. In the past few weeks alone, a recent version, XBB.1.5, the most infectious subvariant yet discovered, has quickly spread in ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 probably shared an ancestor with bat coronaviruses more recently than scientists had thought. But finding the direct ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 is very unlikely, say ...

We must prepare for the possibility that a zoonotic poxvirus could become a highly infectious human pathogen. Our already-fragile health systems cannot afford to be caught in another global pandemic ...

An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...

An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...