The COVID-19 omicron variant has been detected through genomic sequencing in Cleveland Clinic’s lab, according to a Dec. 13 Ideastream Public Media report. A small percentage of the Cleveland Clinic ...

In a lab at New York University, Ned Landau is growing an engineered version of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. Landau, a virologist, is going to use this “pseudovirus” — which can’t ...

The BA.2 virus -- a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant -- isn't just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of ...

As the U.S. and other countries fight Omicron, scientists in South Africa are starting to get a clearer picture. WSJ visited a leading lab studying the coronavirus strain, which appears to partially ...

New lab experiments from Japan show that BA.2 may have features that make it as capable of causing serious illness as older variants of Covid-19, including Delta. And like Omicron, it appears to ...