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 ...

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 ...

The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been the focus of a lot of research these past two years. It’s what the virus uses to invade host cells and it has been the target ...

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 ...

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, ...