From Stratus to Cicada, several variants are on the radar as COVID-19 activity rises, impacting how the virus spreads, its ...

The XFG variant is not a new, supercharged strain, but rather a recombinant variant that virologists have been tracking ...

But how worried should we be? It may have hit the headlines now but the variant has been circulating here and in other ...

(Reuters) - A specific mutation in the new coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers. The research may explain why early outbreaks in ...

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 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 ...

The WHO said that, so far, only a few sequences of the variant named BA.2.86 have been reported from a handful of countries.