Long before chewing gum came in shiny foil wrappers with watermelon flavors and whitening promises, our ancestors were ...

An mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine from Moderna was 27 percent more effective at preventing influenza infections than a ...

Thimerosal, targeted by activists who claim it’s linked to autism, shouldn't be used in vaccines given in the U.S. this ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...

BIRD flu has been detected in an English farm, it’s been announced. A case of the H5N1 bird flu was found in poultry in West Yorkshire. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

Unlike most influenza viruses, which bind to glycans - i.e. carbohydrate chains on the cell surface - for infection, the H18N11 virus has a different target. “This virus binds to MHC class II ...

Prior exposures to specific types of seasonal influenza viruses promote cross-reactive immunity against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine ...

This work is published in Science in the paper, “A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors.. Influenza viruses attach to cells using ...

Hemagglutinin—the “H” in “H5N1”—is a protein that helps influenza viruses bind to host cells; the hemagglutinin achieves this by recognizing receptors that line those cells.

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...

Receptor binding site of the A/Texas/37/2024 hemagglutinin Leu226 mutant (yellow) in complex with the human receptor analog LSTc (cyan). LA JOLLA, CA—Avian influenza viruses typically require ...