Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV, are formidable opponents once they invade our bodies. Antiviral treatments ...

Flu cases are through the roof across the U.S. right now. And, while cold and flu season always packs a punch, it feels like ...

New research utilizes an innovative computational modeling approach to capture the complex and diverse shapes that viral ...

This isn't necessarily new info, but experts hadn't observed this specific shape-shifting in the flu before. Viruses generally tend to mutate to become more infectious, explains infectious disease ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ...

Influenza A virus particle can strategically adapt their shape, becoming either spheres or filaments, to favor their ability ...

Influenza A Viruses Adapt Shape in Response to Environmental Pressures - NIH Study Identifies Previously Unknown Adaptation ...

In this case, flu A viruses have learned to mutate to stay alive longer, which in turn makes it more likely that you (and everyone around you) gets infected. “With a change in genome, it can rapidly ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...