The BA.2 virus -- a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant -- isn't just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of ...

With the COVID-19 omicron variant expected to be detected in the U.S. soon, public health labs are ramping up testing efforts and prioritizing sequencing of positive samples with an “s-gene dropout,” ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A laboratory in Raleigh is at the forefront in detecting changes to the COVID-19 virus in the United States. Mako Medical is located off Durant Road near US 1, and it processes ...

The COVID-19 omicron variant has been detected through genomic sequencing in Cleveland Clinic’s lab, according to a Dec. 13 Ideastream Public Media report. A small percentage of the Cleveland Clinic ...

In a lab at New York University, Ned Landau is growing an engineered version of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. Landau, a virologist, is going to use this “pseudovirus” — which can’t ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German researchers have found that COVID-19 therapies developed by Eli Lilly and Regeneron lose most of their effectiveness when exposed in laboratory tests to the Omicron ...

When omicron first came out there were reports that it had incorporated part of the common cold virus into its structure. Since the common cold is so mild I figured maybe that was the reason this new ...

New lab experiments from Japan show that BA.2 may have features that make it as capable of causing serious illness as older variants of Covid-19, including Delta. And like Omicron, it appears to ...