Scientists from the University of California , San Diego, claimed the virus's ancestor likely emerged five to seven years ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

The research shows that Sars and Covid-19 had near identical evolutions but for Sars-Cov-2 the final jump to humans remains ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what ...

Here is everything we currently know about the origins of the Covid-19 virus, after China claimed that the US was responsible ...

The study lands at a fraught political moment. Last month, the White House created a webpage called “Lab Leak: The True Origin of COVID-19,” asserting that the pandemic had been caused not by ...

Scientists compared the genomes of 250 coronaviruses to reconstruct how the pathogens evolved over time - Naeblys/iStockphoto ...

The study states that the virus originated in bats from western China or northern Laos and spread extremely quickly, even ...

A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak. In a study published Wednesday, a team of researchers ...

China is blaming the United States for the origin of COVID-19, accusing Washington of "evading responsibility" for the virus ...

died of COVID-19. The most recent smoking status recorded prior to the start of the study (1 January 2020) was derived from UK Biobank questionnaires for 122 296 people (median time between recorded ...