H5N1 first raised alarms in 1997 when it infected 18 people ... These mutations involve changes in two viral components: the RNA polymerase, an enzyme that replicates, or copies, the virus’s genome, ...

Secondly, neuraminidase (the "N" in H5N1), the exit protein, which enables the virus to detach itself from the infected cell. And finally, polymerase ... true for an RNA virus like influenza ...

Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses RNA sequencing to detect bacterial pneumonia from whole blood.

In other developments, the WHO says violence in the eastern DR Congo complicates the country's mpox response and that Azerbaijan has reported its first case.

A report published by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) details the characterization of viral sequences obtained from the milk of ...

PA-N155 and PA-N182 proteins were translated from the 11th and 13th start codon AUG of the RNA polymerase acidic protein (PA) mRNA of H5N1 influenza A virus (IAV), which plays an important role in ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and collaborators evaluated a replicating RNA (repRNA) vaccine ...

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (”Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today issued a reminder to its shareholders to vote ahead of a reconvening of a ...

CNN reports a Nevada dairy worker may have been infected by deadly D1.1 version of H5N1 bird flu Worker shows only mild symptoms Genetic analyses of this version show changes that could make it ...

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to this point in the ongoing dairy outbreak. It's the same strain that killed ...

Last week, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of Avian Influenza-Bird Flu (H5N1). With the Biotech Showcase ...