A severe case of bird flu in Louisiana has led to the discovery of mutations in the H5N1 virus, which may help it bind more easily to human...

A study published in the journal Nature has found a link between the COVID-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir and a pattern of mutations in the...

Covid pandemic has subsided but the most mutated variant of coronavirus has been found in Indonesia. The new variant of the covid virus has...

The SARS-CoV-2 genome is made up of 30,000 individual bases. The rate at which mutations arise is typically expressed as the probability th...

The world is in a very "dangerous period" of the Covid-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuin...

While antibodies dock directly onto viruses to neutralise them, the scientists, including those from the Medical University of Vienna in Au...

The study posted in the platform bioRxiv, and yet-to-be peer-reviewed, assessed 3,11,795 genome sequences of the coronavirus spike protein ...

The study confirms findings that D614G, one of the mutations, makes the virus more transmissible.

The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations - and regulators are looking ...

One mutation -- variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London -- has now be...

The CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad have...

Mapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing strategies to combat the COVID-19 disease it causes.

Saumitra Das, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, said the institutes started sequencing the virus from differen...

There had been concerns in some quarters that any major mutation detected in the novel coronavirus could hinder the development of an effec...

A study published in a medical journal has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, has undergone multiple mutations in its "spike ...

Coronaviruses, like other RNA viruses, can develop mutations in three different ways: by mistake from copying errors during viral replicati...

It might be possible for human-tohuman airborne transmissible avian H5N1 inf luenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found.