Dec. 16, 2024 — To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, made up of RNA molecules.

It has infected more than 100 types of wild birds that are not waterfowl and that migrate on different routes from the traditional routes that avian influenza ... viruses and identifies fragments ...

Total RNA was extracted from swabs and RT-PCR was used to detect influenza A viruses. Influenza virus-positive swabs were processed for isolation of SIVs, haemagglutinin and neuraminidase subtype ...

“Some of it is influenza, the virus itself because it’s a segmented RNA and has a different genome. It behaves differently than some viruses, it can mix and match and reassort. So that’s, that’s one ...

Biotech firms are engineering smarter, safer gene delivery systems to enhance the safety and efficacy of genetic medicines.

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 ...

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

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

This discovery indicates that it may be possible to influence the body's own RNAi system to slow viral infections - and not just influenza, but perhaps even other RNA viruses. "Now, we want to ...