Heart damage is common among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, leading many to wonder how the virus affects the heart. Now, researchers have found that the spike protein from the severe acute ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF/BCN) – COVID-19's spike protein may contribute to blood vessels secreting fluids into a person's body, which can lead to severe health outcomes like respiratory failure, according to ...

A doctor's viral remark linking Covid virus and vaccine spike protein to a rise in rare cancers has triggered concern. But Indian experts call the claim biologically implausible and misleading.

The first molecular-level structural analysis of the Omicron variant spike protein in complex with human ACE2 is now available. The near-atomic resolution analysis—using cryo-electron ...

New research reveals that mutations in the stem of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein led to the virus becoming progressively tighter over time, which may have improved the virus's ability to transmit ...

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been the focus of a lot of research these past two years. It’s what the virus uses to invade host cells and it has been the target ...

One of the essential factors the COVID-19 virus needs to enter a host is a receptor on a human cell — a place where the universally recognized spike protein can latch onto the cell surface, pierce it, ...