Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' ...

The virus was able to infect human cell cultures in lab tests ... More than 7 million deaths have been officially recorded, ...

Being sugar-coated doesn’t just help the medicine go down, as the song goes, but it can also help a virus evade the immune ...

For only five percent of those, we have actual medication that you can use to treat ... in theory, cordon the virus off from a potential host cell and prevent infection, though the team didn’t test ...

where it instructs the cells to produce spike proteins similar to those found on the virus. This triggers the immune system to produce antibodies, preparing the body to fight the actual virus if ...

should the actual virus enter the body. In animal studies with hamsters and mice, the universal vaccine created more diverse antibodies with higher titers (concentrations in the blood, where immune ...

However, this stalk is coated with chains of sugar molecules called glycans from the host's cells ... stalk region of the virus' spike protein, should the actual virus enter the body.

However, this stalk is coated with chains of sugar molecules called glycans from the host’s cells ... stalk region of the virus’ spike protein, should the actual virus enter the body.