In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, a team of researchers studied how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection altered the expression of human ...
Funding: This work was supported by Columbia University Dean’s Office Fund and Columbia University Translational Therapeutics (TRx) Pilot Award (to M.Y.). The funders had no role in study design, data ...
The wiggly ‘tail’ at the end of the coronavirus envelope protein could help explain why some coronavirus diseases are more virulent than others, a young African researcher has found. Once considered a ...
Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to ...
Despite vaccines and treatments, SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—continues to pose a global health threat, driven by new variants and its ability to hijack human cells in ways that still ...
In the quest for new treatments for COVID-19, a team led by researchers at UC San Francisco has identified a new potential drug target that may block infection by SARS-CoV-2. The protein, called BRD2, ...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers use cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in tandem with molecular dynamics simulation to reveal that the usually closed spike proteins ...