Angela Rasmussen and Ya-Chi Ho explore the positive and negative aspects of the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and discuss how this knowledge influences therapeutic benefits.

Using an elaborate apparatus, researchers find that the virus spreads via aerosolized particles between ferrets more than a meter apart.

Bat species use different strategies to dampen immune activation in response to viruses.

Recent data show that the drug bamlanivimab, also known as LY-CoV555, does not appear to help those with severe cases of COVID-19, but trials continue for milder cases.

Repeat COVID-19 cases could offer clues about people’s immunity to the novel coronavirus and how to vaccinate against it.

Researchers detail how viral proteins interact with host RNA to disrupt the cell’s ability to fight back against infection.

Genetically engineered cells that overproduce ACE2, the receptor the novel coronavirus uses to enter cells, neutralize infection in vitro and mop up inflammatory cytokines in mice.

The authors of a new analysis conclude that tens of thousands of lives could have been saved with a more coordinated national response to the coronavirus.

The company voluntarily paused its studies, including one in Phase 3, after an unexplained illness in a patient.