Nandkumar M. Kamat In December 2019, a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases surfaced in Wuhan, China. Within weeks, the world was watching. Within months, it was locked down. More than six years ...

Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others. By Benjamin Mueller In late December 2019, ...

LONDON (AP) -- Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a lot of talk about testing for the coronavirus, but you may not entirely understand what the different tests are for. The coronavirus makes some people sick, some ...

Doctors may one day be able to predict the severity of a person’s COVID-19 infection by studying that person’s DNA, a new study shows. An Oct. 26 study in Communications Medicine suggests specific ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A novel study of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of people with COVID-19 or thyroid ...

It has been nearly five years since COVID-19 began sweeping across the world. Now, after extensive genetic tracking, scientists say they have discovered the definitive origin of the virus. The ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the ...