A research team led by the School of Public Health in the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

You’ve worked extensively on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza. What are the key differences in how the immune ...

"We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines," said first author Noor Youssef, a scientific lead for the Predictive Modeling for ...

Scientists have engineered a monoclonal antibody that can protect mice from a lethal dose of influenza A, a new study shows. The new molecule combines the specificity of a mature flu fighter with the ...

PFAS are found in multiple everyday products, such as cosmetics, outdoor clothing and coated pans. This is because of their ...

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

While most people recover from the flu after a short bout of illness, it can be deadly, especially for certain at-risk groups. Between 1999 and 2022, 1.8 of every 100,000 people in the U.S. who got ...

To reproduce, viruses hijack the host cell’s machinery and deliver their genetic material into the cell. These new virus particles are either released in such great numbers that they lyse (i.e., burst ...

The same NYU Langone team discovered in 2020 that a small fraction (less than 5%) of lung macrophages acted differently during infection with the influenza virus by not attacking it. Instead, they ...

Antiviral treatment of influenza is recommended as soon as possible for hospitalized patients and for outpatients who are at increased risk for influenza-related complications. 1,2 The Food and ...

We found that cells have an elegant system that uses structure and disorder together to control cell migration. With that understanding, we can now rationally introduce small changes in a ...