It was on January 11, 2020 when health officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced that a 61-year-old man had ...

The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic ...

The world first became aware of Covid-19 five years ago. We evaluate where we are, remember how we got here, and consider ...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a disease that first appeared in humans in November 2002. Infection initially brings flu-like symptoms including fever and fatigue, but it then attacks ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Understanding the induced and cross reactive ...

In the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic, numerous New Scientist covers were dedicated to the global emergency caused ...

For all the mysteries that remain about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, scientists have generated an incredible amount of fine-grained knowledge in a surprisingly short time.

Since protection from disease has not been demonstrated for any vaccine tested in an animal model that mimics human SARS disease, further vaccine development to improve vaccine efficacy is needed.

In this review, the current state of vaccine development against human severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, focusing on recently published data is assessed. We discuss which ...