The H5N1 avian influenza virus is mutating to evade immune defenses in mammals following prior infection or vaccination.

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New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

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Molecular biology later revealed DNA as the raw material of evolution, unveiling mechanisms like genetic drift, gene flow ... in real-world terms, how a virus might tweak its protein coat or ...

Other antigens with little or no antigenic drift include the surface antigens ... of how in the absence of proof-editing of the genetic code a virus can generate antigenically different forms ...

More importantly, if we want to tackle other systems like viruses and mitochondria, we will have to develop a new set of theories for each molecular process. V(K) can take care of all such diverse ...

He concurred with several who worry about “reassortment,” a phenomenon where two different viruses infecting the same cell may swap genetic material ... evolution and drift and reassortment ...