Noda and Hashiguchi began working together shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic began, and are now trying uncover the atomic structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to better understand its pathogenesis.

As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body ... A recent finding in Nature showed that the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 binds with ...

Many viruses have a couple of proteins on their outer shells, including the proteins making up the shell itself, as well as the spike, a protruding structure that plays a role in helping the virus ...

or SARS-CoV-2, binds to ACE2, a receptor on the host cells, which allows the virus to enter the cells and infect it. Binding is the first step for infection, and several mutations in previous variants ...

There was a second, much smaller outbreak of SARS in 2004, linked to a medical lab in China. It probably occurred as a result of direct contact with the virus, rather than being transmitted from ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: COVID-19 myths have spread just about as quickly as the disease itself, but one myth in particular just won't go away: that SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...

Five years from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous academic studies have shown how the novel coronavirus affects ocular health.