Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...

it must first be able to bind to human receptors. Bird flu viruses are strains of influenza that circulate in birds, and viruses of the H5N1 subtype can be highly pathogenic, meaning they can cause ...

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

The paper: L. Guillot et al., "Involvement of toll-like receptor 3 in the immune response of lung epithelial cells to double-stranded RNA and influenza A virus," J. Biol Chem, 280: 5571-80, 2005.

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to ... A virions enabling live imaging the authors show nanoscale receptor accumulation, endocytosis induction, and actin remodeling.

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

But it isn’t really the flu (influenza), and you can’t spread ... These molecules bind with receptors in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls your body’s temperature.