Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

Knowledge-building extension: Use the Biology of SARS-CoV-2 resource from HHMI BioInteractive, including four animations about the structure, replication, evolution, and treatment of the virus, along ...

For all the mysteries that remain about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, scientists have generated an incredible amount of fine-grained knowledge in a surprisingly short time.

“I thought, ‘What can I do for the next 20 or 30 years?’” He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was rapidly spreading around the world. In March 2020, ...

But that was one of the first big surprises from the virus dubbed SARS-CoV-2. It evolved like crazy. "SARS-CoV-2 so far has probably been even faster than influenza virus, which is really remarkable," ...