Quantum mechanical modeling allowed the team to develop an initial set of predictions about the role of mutations on infectivity and immune response evasion of Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants ...

and omicron variants. Intranasal delivery of ACE2-antivirus has been shown to save human-ACE2 transgenic mice from lethal infection by multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains—illustrating its potential as a ...

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently developed a ...

Omicron had an unparalleled ability to hide ... attach to a protein on the outside of some human cells: the ACE2 receptor. To avoid this attachment, the immune system creates antibodies (Y-shaped ...