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 ...

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

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 ...

Using the example of a seasonal influenza A virus, the researchers used high-resolution and super-resolution microscopy to show that contact between the virus and the cell surface triggers a cascade ...

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 ...

The emergence of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM; also called electron cryo-microscopy) as a tool for structure determination ... channel activation, virus fusion and membrane pore formation.

mRNA nuclear export is targeted by a variety of viruses to block host ... fellow and biochemistry alum, used cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure for the nuclear cap binding complex ...

Unlike most influenza viruses, which bind to glycans—i.e. carbohydrate chains on the cell surface—for infection, the H18N11 virus has a different target. Example 1 of MDCK cells stably ...