Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team from the Helmholtz Center for ...

The variant that was just one mutation away from binding to human receptors is now no longer in circulation. De Vries, Boons and colleagues, in collaboration with researchers at the University of ...

The teams from Braunschweig and Freiburg have thus characterized a new model of influenza A infection: the binding to MHCII as an alternative receptor and the associated dynamic reorganization of the ...

Scientists have engineered a monoclonal antibody that can protect mice from a lethal dose of influenza A, a new study shows.

The new molecule combines the specificity of a mature flu fighter with the broad binding capacity of a more ... virus's ability to bind to a host cell receptor and enter the cell to make copies ...

The peptide, from a portion of the influenza virus nucleoprotein A that is exposed on the protein’s surface, turns out to have homology to a surface-exposed peptide in a human receptor that normally ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

But we have to take a flu shot every year ... rate of mutation seen in the SARS-CoV-2 virus - specifically, the receptor binding domain on the virus' spike protein - has led to an unprecedented ...

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419800122 Pradeep Chopra et al, Receptor-binding specificity of a bovine influenza A virus, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08822-5 ...