A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China. The discovery was made by a team of virologists led by Shi ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Chicago: Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells ...

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which binds to the same receptor as the COVID-19 virus. The discovery of HKU5-CoV-2 has raised questions about the potential ...

The findings were published this week as a study titled “Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor” in biology journal Cell. The new lineage of ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging comes from the merbecovirus subgenus A new bat coronavirus, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered in China. A Chinese team ...