With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

Genetic evidence from a new report suggests the coronavirus pandemic most likely spilled over from animals in the Wuhan ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines and drains inside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — a site ...

A University of Arizona researcher was part of a study strongly linking pandemic origin to the seafood market in China.

“For example, with the racoon dogs, we can show that the racoon dogs that were (at the market) … were from a sub-species that circulates more in southern parts of China,” said ...

A key limitation of the research is that the genetic data, obtained by Chinese investigators ... Raccoon dogs have also been shown experimentally to be capable of transmitting the virus.

The Hunan Seafood Wholesale wet market in Wuhan, China, has long been considered the ... Advertisement Those samples show that animal species known to carry the COVID coronavirus were present ...

The center in Walz’s home state of Minnesota, the Hormel Institute, often collaborates on research with the WIV, the institute in Wuhan ... China’s Zhengzhou University, federal records show.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology has developed a ... to create nanoparticles that show promise for long-lasting immunity. In tests on mice, the vaccine demonstrated effectiveness against multiple ...