Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A/H3N2 virus particles, isolated from a patient sample and then propagated in cell culture. Influenza A virus particles adapt shape—as ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology ...

The electron microscope reveals that these infectious particles possess three principal types of symmetry. Each species of virus is ingeniously assembled from just a few kinds of building block ...

To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being ... using biochemical approaches and state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy provided by the Integrated Structural Biology ...

Researchers in France have taken a groundbreaking look inside the intricate world of the influenza A virus, revealing ... technique involved cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to visualize the ...

Following 70 years of expertise investigating some of the most widespread and harmful viruses such as HIV, influenza and ... A combination of cryo-electron microscopy and high-speed atomic force ...