1 day ago · Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab accused of leaking COVID-19, discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide ...

1 day ago · HKU5-CoV-2 is a virus found in bats. It’s a type of coronavirus, a large group of germs that can affect mammals and birds. ... The Wuhan Institute researchers tested the newly-discovered germ in ...

11 hours ago · Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, the lab accused of leaking Covid-19, have discovered a new coronavirus in bats. A recent study published in Cell found that the virus ...

2 days ago · HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses, especially at the Wuhan Institute, which has been at the center of ...

8 hours ago · A new coronavirus has been found in bats that closely resembles the one that led to the 2020 pandemic, according to researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.. The research department, located in the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first discovered, is a leading authority on the pandemic but it has previously been accused by detractors of leaking the virus.

1 day ago · A Chinese team of virologists have 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, a media report said. The study was led by Shi Zhengli, Chinese virologist from the controversial Wuhan ...

1 day ago · Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, previously linked to lab leak theories regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, have identified a new coronavirus strain in bats. This virus bears a ...

1 day ago · The Wuhan virus research centre is known for its work on bat coronaviruses. One theory of how the COVID pandemic began is that it leaked from that lab, perhaps through an infected worker.

1 day ago · The scientists said that like SARS-CoV-2, the bat virus HKU5-CoV-2 contains a feature known as the furin cleavage site that helps it to enter cells via the ACE2 receptor protein on cell surfaces.

4 days ago · Jing Chen at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and her colleagues sequenced genetic material collected from bats of the genus Pipistrellus in China in 2014. One of the viruses isolated from ...