The protein structure facilitates viral entry into host cells making it a key target for vaccine and antiviral drug development, according to the researchers
In a study of ethnically diverse people from Cameroon, the presence of a parasite infection was closely linked to the makeup of the gastrointestinal microbiome
In lab experiments, both the lung cell and immune cell types of nanosponges caused the SARS-CoV-2 virus to lose nearly 90 percent of its "viral infectivity"