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

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

China's top drug regulator has approved a homegrown flu treatment that acts on a novel protein target, adding to the arsenal of weapons against the infectious disease that kills hundreds of thousands ...

Virus that causes polio-like illness found in Bay Area as influenza cases spike First identified in California in 1962, EV-D68 can severely impact small children By Ariana Bindman , News Features ...

A reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) test specific for influenza A(H5) 2 was positive on the day of admission. The patient had signs of respiratory deterioration — chest ...

The world is absolutely teeming with viruses. | To find RNA viruses hiding in genomic “dark matter,” researchers took advantage of one thing they all have in common: the RNA polymerase enzyme.

Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the avian influenza virus's polymerase when it interacts with a human protein ... making copies of the viral RNA to package into new viruses.

Hara K, Schmidt FI, Crow M, and Brownlee GG Amino acid residues in the N-terminal region of the PA subunit of influenza A virus RNA polymerase play a critical role in protein stability, endonuclease ...

The most popular disease-causing viruses bear RNA, not DNA, including the causative agents of COVID-19, AIDS, polio, influenza, etc. due to its hit-or-miss strategy of replication.

Influenza A viruses are negative-sense RNA viruses that infect a wide-range of species, including birds and humans. ... neuraminidase, and polymerase basic-1.