A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus ...

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

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

Two highly-respected and innovative North East businesses - AR Power and George Smith - have partnered to install a ...

Detection of a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19 raises the ...

Bats’ status as the only truly flying mammals might mean they also have another ‘superpower’ — invincibility to most viruses ...