Influenza virus is a common cause of human respiratory infection with a high rate of morbidity and mortality, particularly in the elderly and in infants. The influenza particle, or virion ...

associate professor in the same department and their colleagues describe the actual structure of influenza B virus hemagglutinin and compare it to a similar protein on influenza A virus.

Now, a team of MIT scientists has found and unveiled the structure of the virus, particularly the key influenza protein, in the hopes to develop new drugs to combat influenza. The Centers for ...

The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th century, helping to explain why, in general, older individuals have been less severely ...

Figure 1: VLP structural features are resolved using VPP and indicate that influenza VLPs carrying G1S mutated HA engage one to seven HA glycoproteins on binding to liposomes. Figure 2 ...

Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Type C only causes mild infections and type D is not believed to infect humans. However, influenza A and ...

Currently, influenza A is dominant, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “You tend to have one or the other virus predominant at any given time,” said Anice ...

Researchers have discovered the first giant virus in ... the size of an influenza or coronavirus. "Through an international collaboration, we elucidated the genome and structure of the ...

To find the answer, they developed a way to observe and measure real-time influenza A virus structure during formation. The researchers found: Influenza A viruses rapidly adjust their shape when ...

associate professor in the same department and their colleagues describe the actual structure of influenza B virus hemagglutinin and compare it to a similar protein on influenza A virus.