Findings reported by a team of virologists at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Wuhan Institute of Virology.

CoV-2, discovered in China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, raises concerns due to its potential to infect human cells like ...

CoV-2, which can enter human cells using the same gateway as the highly contagious SAR-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have shared warnings of a new strain of Covid found in bats which ...

Scientists in China have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, but health experts caution against overreacting, ...

Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated ...

The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the infection has not yet been identified in a living person, according to a study ...

Scientists also discovered that HKU5-CoV-2 might infect human cells as well as small lung or gut tissues cultured in a lab.

The virus has a special feature, called a furin cleavage site, that helps it enter cells through the ACE2 receptor protein ...

The lab finding does raise the possibility that this new bat virus could spread from animals to humans, researchers said in a ...

BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus, a spokesperson of China's foreign ministry said during a regular ...

The new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a team of virologists led by Shi Zhengli, a scientist known as “Batwoman” for ...