Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduced the risk for hospitalization and severe outcomes despite the emergence of new viral lineages.

When the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, and multiple variants were threatening lives around the world, scientists relied on a process called "tiled amplicon sequencing" to track the virus's spread ...

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 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) that detects a pathogen by finding ...

Scientists have uncovered the precise molecular trigger behind a rare blood-clotting disorder linked to certain COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 vaccinations were shown to reduce virus-related hospitalizations and severe disease-associated outcomes in immunocompetent adults. The findings from a recently published JAMA Network Open ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Louisiana Department of Health has selected a team from Ochsner Health to analyze the sequencing of COVID-19 variants circulating in the state. According to LDH, the ...

COVID-19 vaccination showed effectiveness in reducing hospitalizations and severe disease outcomes associated with the SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 lineage, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network ...

During the current surge of COVID-19 cases in Western New York, a dedicated team of UB scientists has been busy sequencing and analyzing as many as 1,000 viral samples every week. “We’ve been keeping ...

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- More cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 have been detected in the Houston area. Now, it has made its way to Fort Bend County. The new three cases were detected ...

Researchers discover that COVID-19 uniquely causes brain inflammation and disrupts serotonin/dopamine pathways, explaining "brain fog" in Long COVID.