Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has focused attention on the
need to develop effective therapies against the causative agent, SARS-CoV-2, and also …

Recently, a novel coronavirus initially designated 2019-nCoV but now termed SARS-CoV-2
has emerged and raised global concerns due to its virulence. SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological …

Dear Editor, The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV) poses a serious threat …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a rapidly emerging viral
infection causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Hydroxychloroquine and …

Virus entry, consisting of attachment to and penetration into the host target cell, is the first
step of the virus life cycle and is a critical 'do or die'event that governs virus emergence in …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in China at the
end of 2019 and has rapidly caused a pandemic, with over 20 million recorded COVID-19 …

During viral entry, enveloped viruses require the fusion of their lipid envelope with host cell
membranes. For coronaviruses, this critical step is governed by the virally-encoded spike (S) …

Ari Helenius launched the field of enveloped virus fusion in endosomes with a seminal
paper in the Journal of Cell Biology in 1980. In the intervening years, a great deal has been …

Pseudotyped viruses are valuable tools for studying virulent or lethal viral pathogens that
need to be handled in biosafety level 3 (BSL3) or higher facilities. With the explosive spread …

Ebola virus infection can cause severe hemorrhagic fever with a high mortality in humans.
The outbreaks of Ebola viruses in 2014 represented the most serious Ebola epidemics in …