Designing antivirals for shape-shifting viruses
Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV, are formidable opponents once they invade our bodies. Antiviral treatments ...
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The Flu Virus Can Shape Shift—Here's How You Can Outsmart It
A new study says the flu A viral strain can adapt shape to stay infectious. Infectious disease doctors break down what this ...
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Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures, study reveals
Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ...
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Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures
Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape -- to become either spheres or larger filaments -- to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according ...
HIV protein switch may help virus squeeze into host cell nucleus
Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ...
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The Flu Virus Can Shape Shift—Here's How You Can Outsmart It
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 ...