The Bird Flu Virus Is Mutating Fast – And Scientists Say Our Vaccines May Not Be Enough
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
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Visualization of the first contact between the earliest reported human coronavirus and its human receptor molecule
Researchers used cryo-EM, glycoproteomics, and modeling to generate the atomic structure of a fully ... in the hemagglutinin protein (HA) of the influenza virus, which makes an important ...
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Discovery of new bat flu strain with potential to infect other species
A newly identified bat influenza virus ... events with the HA and NA segments contribute to their genetic diversity and the adaptability of these mutated viruses to infect new hosts.
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A Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Approach to Influenza Vaccine Development
The influenza genome is very compact and contained in virus particles that are ~ 100 nm ... Variations in the HA and NA genes determine the subtype and strain. It is possible to sequence the ...