BERKELEY (CBS SF/BCN) – COVID-19's spike protein may contribute to blood vessels secreting fluids into a person's body, which can lead to severe health outcomes like respiratory failure, according to ...

Heart damage is common among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, leading many to wonder how the virus affects the heart. Now, researchers have found that the spike protein from the severe acute ...

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – The maker of a dietary supplement was sued on Feb. 17 for allegedly spiking its products to artificially inflate the level of protein. Richard Ferrari filed the class action ...

One of the essential factors the COVID-19 virus needs to enter a host is a receptor on a human cell — a place where the universally recognized spike protein can latch onto the cell surface, pierce it, ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint* server, researchers in Sweden investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) protein amyloid as a potential ...

New research reveals that mutations in the stem of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein led to the virus becoming progressively tighter over time, which may have improved the virus's ability to transmit ...