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 ...

Epidemics of seasonal influenza occur due to influenza A or B viruses. Due to the segmented nature of the influenza genome, in which coding sequences are located on individual RNA strands ...

For each protein, its corresponding RNA genomic segment is indicated ... within this matrix shell is the viral RNA genome, which (for influenza A viruses) consists of eight single-stranded ...

or antigenic shift (which for flu is usually the acquisition of a whole new segment of RNA). Any scientist or physician interested in the influenza virus itself, and all its fascinating ...

One genome segment was derived from a classical swine H1N1 lineage ... human, and classical swine influenza A viruses. Triple reassortant viruses are established in the US and Canada, but also have ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center, with multiple academic, state and ...

Pigs are the most important reservoir for influenza A viruses, acting as an intermediary host for both interspecies transmission and genetic reassortment. This is due to the high susceptibility of ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Their study also shows that an already ...

As schools reopen, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reports an uptick in flu cases following a recent decline. Influenza ... genetic material (DNA or RNA) and require ...