Viruses work by taking control of our cells and carefully reprogramming them into machines to make more viruses. Because of ...

"It's incredible, and a big surprise, that the same infection that caused so much devastation can help create a ...

"Influenza remains an incredibly dangerous risk to global health," said Taia Wang, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of ...

Viruses are the fastest-evolving biological entity on earth. This fact explains why we need flu shots every year: Seasonal ...

Aug. 19, 2024 — The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection – among them, raising ...

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine ...

A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...

Another cause for concern: flu season is underway in the U.S., and as seasonal influenza virus goes around, “humans, ...

"By boosting the T cells along the respiratory tract, the vaccine induced protection against influenza virus variants in vivo ...