【Video Report】Animal Invaders and Disease Transmission

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Institute of Zoology has, in an active response to the call of the CPC Central Committee and the CAS Party Group, pooled superior scientific research forces into coronavirus emergency research. The scientific researchers have worked hard day and night, overcome many difficulties and made positive progress, demons...

19 06, 2020

【Video Report】Body Temperature, Life Span and Immunity of Bats

 Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Institute of Zoology has, in an active response to the call of the CPC Central Committee and the CAS Party Group, pooled superior scientific research forces into coronavirus emergency research. The scientific researchers have worked hard day and night, overcome many difficulties and made positive progress, demon...

19 06, 2020

【Video Report】The Co-evolution of Virus and Host

 As coronavirus research continues to reach deeper levels, people become more concerned about this question: how have humans and other animals continuously dealt with various viral infections during the long-term evolution? The long-term co-existence between viruses and their hosts involves an evolutionary concept: coevolution. Co-evolution refers to the ...

19 06, 2020

The Wuhan Institute of Virology's vital role in fighting COVID-19

Source: Sci-Tech News | Author: Lu Chengkuan & China.org？Since the outbreak of COVID-19, researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) have been working on the frontline, undertaking a range of R&D tasks to prevent and control the pandemic. Still, rumors swirling around the internet have spread around the wo...

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Recent Progress on Population Susceptibility to COVID-19

Recent analysis on multiple sets of clinical data provide evidences for discrepant susceptibility to COVID-19 among different cohorts or populations. A number of studies have reached consensus that people with aging, diabetes, physical weakness, multiple system disorders, and low immune system are more likely to become infected with COVID-19 and show seve...

11 05, 2020

CAS helps marshal global science community's COVID-19 fight

　　As part of its efforts to jointly fight the pandemic with the rest of the world, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) lost no time in setting up databases of novel coronavirus information.
　　It updates these databases with the latest developments in virus research and shares all relevant data with the world, in order to contribute to international...

09 05, 2020