Distinct profiles between mild and severe COVID-19 patients reveal why some fight off infection easily while others don't, guiding the development of mutation-resistant vaccines.

Cases of "American Covid" are on the rise in the UK. The latest strain of the virus, officially called XFG or Stratus, comes ...

A Covid strain dubbed "American Covid" is spreading across the UK as cases of the virus rise sharply. The XFG variant, also ...

Meanwhile, the percentage of tests in hospitals that came back positive for Covid rose from 5.9% to 7.0% in the seven days ...

The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from ...

The XFG variant is not a new, supercharged strain, but rather a recombinant variant that virologists have been tracking ...

No, it's not a virus covered in stars and stripes.

COVID-19 immunity may recognise some closely related bat coronaviruses, a new Pirbright Institute and King’s College London study finds.

Antibodies from people who recovered from COVID-19 neutralized closely related bat coronaviruses, including viruses capable ...

In the previous installment (#11), we followed the situation up to the full lifting of the state of emergency on September 30 ...

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute and King’s College London have revealed that immunity generated by SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination may offer significant protection against a range of other b ...

The rituals of the Covid years thankfully seem consigned to history for most of us. Yet in recent weeks, an unwelcome phrase ...