Chinese scientists, led by Shi Zhengli, have discovered a novel coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that can infect humans and other mammals. Isolated from the Japanese pipistrelle bat, this virus shares the ...

Virologist Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Chinatopix via AP But it could be soon be followed by a so-called Doomsday variant that is “Delta ...

Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese virologist who researches coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has long drawn attention about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shi and her team have denied that the COVID-19 virus could have come from the lab, with Shi having “guaranteed with her own life” that the virus had nothing to do with the lab’s work.

The virologist, Shi Zhengli, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China’s habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.

Stewart didn’t have the name right, but he was referring to the work of the Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli, whose lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology does indeed study SARS-related ...

Shi Zhengli is the woman who could unlock the cure or vaccine for coronavirus after the virologist from Wuhan, China, discovered the genetic code for Covid-19 ...

In 2015, Ralph S. Baric, arguably the world’s most accomplished coronavirologist, published groundbreaking research with Shi Zhengli, the leading coronavirus researcher at the Wuhan Institute of ...

One of the scientists spearheading this bat coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr, Shi Zhengli, has denied that COVID-19 could have emerged from her lab -- as has the Chinese ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist known as the "batwoman" based on her research on bat coronavirus, was the leader of the study.