DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

A global study has found strong evidence that a new form of the coronavirus has spread from Europe to the US. The new mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...

None of the mutations documented in the new coronavirus appear to make Covid-19 spread more rapidly, scientists have said. However, the researchers from University College London (UCL) have warned the ...

When researchers in China first discovered a new coronavirus spreading amongst the people in the city of Wuhan, they collected samples of the virus and published its genetic code online. Stream Los ...

Scientists studying the coronavirus say they have identified a mutation that seems to have helped the virus spread more widely. The study, led by scientists at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, ...

It seems like every couple of days new research is released revealing the coronavirus has mutated. Fears have been raised the ever-evolving pathogen could become more contagious or deadly. Some have ...

A new study provides early evidence that a Covid-19 vaccine might be effective against two new coronavirus strains first identified in South Africa and the UK, despite a concerning mutation. A new ...