SARSlike

Mount Sinai-led researchers have shown that tiny, robust immune particles derived from the blood of a llama could provide strong protection against every COVID-19 variant, including Omicron, and 18 similar viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and…

Both SARS-CoV-1, the virus that caused the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, originate from a group of betacoronaviruses known as "subgroup 2b." Coronaviruses from this…

Some ancestral rodents likely had repeated infections with SARS-like coronaviruses, leading them to acquire tolerance or resistance to the pathogens,according to new research publishing Nov. 18 in PLOS Computational Biology by Sean King and…