HIV and some influenza viruses have been known to use tentacles to help them enter into cells. Many viruses change the cells they infect, and growing tentacles is one way they do it, says Columbia ...

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 ...

717 passages in cell culture; 30 passages in chick embryos; five passages in ferrets; and an additional 50 passages in chick embryos. In 1940, for the first time, a different influenza virus was ...

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 ...

Influenza A viruses are further classified into subtypes based on two surface proteins: hemagglutinin (H), which helps the virus enter cells, and neuraminidase (N), which helps the virus spread to ...