MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Recent News

• 07 May

  Bat Virus Evolution Suggests Wildlife Trade Sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence

  New study finds that SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan, China too quickly for its bat hosts to have carried it there — a dispersal pattern consistent with that of SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2002 SARS outbreak.
• 02 May

  Hidden Patterns of Virus Evolution in Long-Term Infections

  Researchers have developed a new method to study virus evolution in long-term COVID-19 infections, revealing that SARS-CoV-2 can evolve differently in separate parts of the body.
• 30 Apr

  Citizen science project receives reports of mosquitoes from all across Scotland

  Scientists at the University of Glasgow have received more than 700 reports of mosquitoes from across Scotland, including from Dumfries and Galloway in the south to Shetland in the north, thanks to the incredible response from the public to a citizen science project launched last year.