12 hours ago · Extensive coronavirus research has led to the discovery of a new bat virus called HKU5-CoV-2. According to a new study published in the medical journal Cell, the new virus can enter human cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19. Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have revealed the lineage of the virus and its potential to transmit from animals to ...

2 days 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 ...

5 hours ago · The detection of this highly infectious and transmisisble coronavirus variant 4 years after the first case of SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 was first detected in China's Wuhan city, is a reminder ...

2 days ago · Researchers have discovered a virus that can enter human cells in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19. But the germ — HKU5-CoV-2 — doesn’t enter cells as effectively, so experts ...

13 hours ago · Scientists at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology recently reported the discovery of another bat-borne coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which is capable of entering cells using human ACE2 — the same ...

3 days ago · A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered. HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by ...

1 day 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 · The Wuhan Virus Research Centre is known for its work on coronaviruses found in bats. One theory of how the Covid-19 pandemic began is that it leaked from the Wuhan lab, perhaps through an ...

2 days ago · A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday ...

2 days ago · Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes Covid-19.