Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses like H5N1, H5N6, and H7N9 pose an evolving global threat due to their capacity to infect birds, mammals, and occasionally humans, with sporadic outbreaks and ...

When scientists engineer a better way to fight the flu, they often begin with nature’s own defenses. That’s what a new study ...

Late-stage trial data suggest that a new COVID-flu vaccine offers good protection against both infections, but experts expect ...

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

An 11-year-old boy in Cambodia has died from bird flu, the country’s fourth victim of four confirmed cases of the infection this year. The Health Ministry has announced laboratory tests from ...

These antibodies, mimicking mature natural flu-fighters of the adaptive immune system, attach to a precise section of the surface protein to disable the virus's ability to bind to a host cell ...

A Norwegian study reveals that a certain class of drugs used for arthritis could weaken the body's virus defence, especially ...

Flu viruses are wily because they mutate from season ... virus that’s been chemically tweaked so it can’t infect human cells. The project comes from work being driven by Dr. Matthew Memoli ...