The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The influenza virus continues to pose a threat to our health. It triggers seasonal ...

A microscopic sleight of hand is employed by the influenza virus: a discreet strategy that allows it to deceive the cells it infects. To manufacture its own molecules without being detected, the virus ...

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 avian influenza virus's ...

In a recent paper published in Science, Turnbull et al. 1 show that a modest fever-range rise in core temperature (~2 °C) directly restricts early influenza A virus replication in vivo, but that avian ...

Structure of the influenza virus replication complex, comprising two viral polymerases (dark and light colours) in interaction with human ANP32 (purple). In recent years, public health measures, ...