A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...

High-throughput RNAi screens in human cells suggest new approaches to curb influenza virus infection. Brass et al. 1 used fluorescence microscopy to score the abundance of the influenza envelope ...

A component found in all fungi may provide a shield that prevents flu-related lung damage, according to a new Canadian study.

717 passages in cell culture; 30 passages in chick embryos; five passages in ferrets; and an additional 50 passages in chick embryos. In 1940, for the first time, a different influenza virus was ...

Yearly administration of the influenza vaccine is the main strategy to prevent influenza in immunocompromised patients. Here, we reviewed the recent literature regarding the clinical significance ...

These results, published in Nature Immunology, highlight beta-glucan as a promising therapy for influenza and other ... glucan can reprogram certain immune cells, such as neutrophils, to control ...

Chinese Researchers Find Bat Virus Enters Human Cells Via Same Pathway as COVID By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface ...

The virus does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2 does, the Chinese researchers reported in the journal Cell, noting some of its limitations. The scientists said that like SARS-CoV-2 ...