Onsite testing at wastewater treatment plants could aid efforts to monitor for outbreaks of COVID-19 around the world, but such technologies are in the early stages of development.

A nearly all-female team of researchers developed a PCR diagnostic tool in a record-setting six weeks.

Working with a virus that infects bacteria, the Stanford University biochemist and developmental biologist helped to develop a way to stitch DNA together, a discovery that gave rise to genetic engineering.

Download our poster of the biggest milestones, from the discovery of the viral family in humans in the 1960s to the identification of SARS-CoV-2.

In record time, scientists have gone from harvesting antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 from survivors of coronavirus infections to testing the antibodies’ safety as a drug in humans.

The experiments did not involve SARS-CoV-2, but researchers say the results support precautions to avoid possibly spreading COVID-19 by talking.

Researchers have found traces of the coronavirus at wastewater treatment plants in various locations around the world.

The use of yeast artificial chromosomes has enabled the rapid genetic reconstruction of the novel coronavirus.

Nine of the 20 pharma companies that participated in a study had experienced at least one viral contamination event between 1985 and 2018.