Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

While this built-in immunity is good news for the ducks, it can also allow for greater chance of reassortment — when viruses share genetic material — increasing the risk of another pandemic ...

Until now, it was believed that while reassortment -- when human influenza viruses swap genes with influenza viruses that infect birds -- causes severe pandemics, such as the 'Spanish' flu of 1918 ...

Person of Interest recap: QSO / Reassortment Team Machine continues to fight Samaritan, and Shaw struggles to differentiate between reality and the simulation ...

Cancer's Penchant For Developing Drug Resistance Is A Result Of Chromosome Reassortment, UC Berkeley Scientist Proposes Date: January 30, 2001 Source: University Of California, Berkeley Summary: A ...

This exchange is usually termed reassortment. Although RNA recombination and reassortment are mechanistically very different, both require that two or more viruses infect the same host cell.

Reassortment of genes between avian and human strains of influenza, which is facilitated by the division of the influenza A genome into eight segments, can occur during coinfection with both strains.

Rotavirus is among the most important etiological agents of severe diarrheal illness in humans and animals around the world.

Yet despite this, the argument that we should be prepared for all kinds of natural reassortment, the fact that the study was carried out in China's high-security National Avian Influenza Reference ...