CoV-2, which can enter human cells using the same gateway as the highly contagious SAR-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

HKU5-CoV-2, belongs to the merbecovirus subgenus, which includes the Mers virus. This newly isolated strain can bind to the ...

Scientists also discovered that HKU5-CoV-2 might infect human cells as well as small lung or gut tissues cultured in a lab.

Wuhan: Researchers from China have identified a new bat coronavirus named HKU5-CoV-2, which can potentially infect humans.

China has discovered a new coronavirus in bats that can enter the human body like Covid-19. The new virus, HKU5-CoV, hasn't ...

Researchers have discovered a virus that could enter human cells in a similar way to COVID-19. But they caution it's much ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020 ...

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because ...

Experiments revealed that HKU5-CoV-2 enters human cells in the same manner as SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

China has firmly denied that its Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted gain-of-function studies on coronavirus, rejecting ...

Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, 73, has abruptly resigned from his post as acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).