Have you ever wondered why you have to get a flu shot every year, but some vaccines are one-and-done? It all has to do with how and how fast viruses evolve - and that depends on mutation rates.

When you hear the term "evolutionary tree," you may think of Charles Darwin and the study of the relationships between different species over the span of millions of years. While the concept of an ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of... What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about how viruses ...

How long COVID develops is still largely unknown. New molecular connections are revealed in a recent study led by the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM), which is a joint institution ...

Researchers and medical experts have long tried to understand why some viruses remain harmless in animals while others jump ...

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COVID-19 has changed a lot over the years, as has our ability to protect ourselves through vaccines. And we recently got some new news on the virus. On March 19, the CDC released a report stating that ...

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 ...

A worldwide study of the coronavirus released in the journal Cell indicates that the dominant strand of COVID-19 is causing the virus to spread faster. But the study’s authors said that even though ...

It’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began—and a lot has changed. From early in the pandemic until now, COVID went from causing fear, death, shortages, and uncertainty to being regarded by ...

A study from the Los Alamos National Laboratory concluded that a mutation in the novel coronavirus emerged in Europe in February and has since spread. The preprint was posted online and not published ...