Researchers in Japan have successfully generated lung cells similar to alveolar epithelial type 2 (AT2) cells from mouse ...

Influenza hemagglutinin subunit vaccines are more effective and offer better cross protection against various influenza virus ...

Unlike most influenza viruses, which bind to glycans - i.e. carbohydrate chains on the cell surface - for infection, the H18N11 virus has a different target.

The bat influenza A virus subtype H18N11 induces nanoscale MHCII clustering upon host cell attachment. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58834-y ...

For at least a year, H5N1 has been infecting dairy cattle, which were not known to be susceptible to this type of influenza. In some cows, it has had lasting effects, reducing milk production and ...

Figure 1. PTK and MAPK inhibitors suppress cytokine production induced by influenza virus infection. U937 cells were infected with influenza A virus A/PuertoRico/8/1934 (MOI = 0.1) with 10 μM of each ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The bird flu that’s been making news in the United States is a virus called H5N1.

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...

In a new study, scientists have found that those viruses that enter the body through a different route can multiply faster and reach higher levels in human lung cells than viruses that only use the ...

Similar to human influenza viruses, many influenza viruses that infect animals use sialic acids to enter host cells. However, it turned out that some use a different entrance called the major ...