Data on mRNA vaccines sent by Moderna to European regulators before the COVID-19 outbreak included early tests of the mRNA ...

So how do they know with such certainty? The key is in the virus's genetic code. This is the genomic sequence for SARS-CoV-2. It was decoded in January 2020, just weeks after the world started to ...

Sequence variations in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease, the molecular targets of anti-retroviral drug therapy, are prime examples of genes in which ...

It started as a respiratory illness – or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was so much more. "Since the beginning, the virus showed a ...

2004) and then analyzed the sequence. They predicted that the genome contains 911 potential protein-coding genes, or open reading frames (ORFs; Raoult et al. 2004). The human influenza virus ...

A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring ...

Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already is being tested for the presence of bird flu, the genetic sequence of the ...

On January 31, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new ...