A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

High-throughput RNAi screens in human cells suggest new approaches to curb influenza virus infection. Brass et al. 1 used fluorescence microscopy to score the abundance of the influenza envelope ...

If we can use this knowledge to develop vaccines using the parts of the virus that T cells recognize, we might be able to protect ourselves from future flu mutations." Currently, human influenza ...

Yearly administration of the influenza vaccine is the main strategy to prevent influenza in immunocompromised patients. Here, we reviewed the recent literature regarding the clinical significance ...

Chinese Researchers Find Bat Virus Enters Human Cells Via Same Pathway as COVID By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface ...

However, the virus does not enter human cells as readily as Sars-CoV-2 does, the Chinese researchers reported in the journal Cell, noting some of its limitations. The scientists said that like ...