Influenza Proteins Tilt and Wave in ‘Breath-like’ Motions
The flu virus sickens people by sneaking past their immune defenses, entering cells and then replicating. Hundreds of hemagglutinin (HA) ...
Tag: Influenza
Why Upper Respiratory Infectious are More Common in Colder Temperatures
A newly discovered immune response inside the nose is suppressed by colder temperatures, offering evidence for why colds, flu and ...
Arcturus Awarded $63.2M to Advance Self-amplifying mRNA Vaccine for Pandemic Influenza Response
$63.2 Million base award to fund development from preclinical stage through Phase 1 over three-year period. A lower-dose, freeze-dried, pandemic influenza ...
New Universal Flu Vaccine Offers Broad Protection Against Influenza A Virus Infections
A new universal flu vaccine constructed with key parts of the influenza virus offers broad cross protection against different strains ...
Adverse Events After Simultaneous COVID-19 mRNA Booster, Flu Vaccination
Are systemic reactions more common after simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and seasonal influenza vaccines than after COVID-19 mRNA ...
US Begins Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Universal Flu Vaccine
A Phase 1 clinical trial of a novel influenza vaccine has begun inoculating healthy adult volunteers at the National Institutes ...
New Way to Identify Influenza A Virus Lights Up When Specific Virus Targets are Present
The influenza A virus causes between 290,000 and 650,000 deaths per year globally. Because the influenza A virus is constantly ...
Resurgent COVID-19, Flu and Other Viruses are Pushing New Zealand’s Health System to the Limit
As Aotearoa New Zealand heads into the colder winter months, the pressures on our health system and staff are growing ...
U.S. Opens Funding for New Public Health Pathogens Genomics Centers of Excellence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the availability of cooperative agreement funds for this fiscal year ...
Home-Based Flu Tests as Accurate as Rapid Diagnostic Testing in Clinical Settings
Study findings underscore imperative of expanding test access and lowering costs Home-based, self-administered tests for influenza are comparable in accuracy ...
Mitigating Flu and Other Respiratory Viruses for Children in Indoor Environments
In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance for reducing SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) transmission in schools ...
Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center Website Now Available
The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), an initiative funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
Particles Carrying Viruses Likely Travel Farther Than Previously Thought
New research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory raises questions about how far droplets, like those that carry the virus ...
Building Better Antivirals for the Next Pandemic
New research shows for the first time why the antiviral drug remdesivir works against some viruses but not others—a finding ...
US Government Invests in At-Home Single Swab Combined Flu, COVID Test
Detect Inc.'s over-the-counter home test identifies and distinguishes between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A and B nucleic acid in less than ...
Let’s Not Forget About the Other Respiratory Viruses
With all the focus on COVID-19, let’s not forget about rhinoviruses, influenza, RSV, and adenoviruses. With coronaviruses taking over our ...
Licensing Opportunity: Virus-Like Particle Technology for Universal Flu Vaccine
Reformulating influenza vaccines annually against dominant circulating strains leads to variable protective efficacy and is unlikely to protect against novel ...
Nanoparticle Mosaic Quadrivalent Flu Vaccine Phase 1 Clinical Trial Gets Underway
NIH Launches Clinical Trial of Universal Influenza Vaccine Candidate A first-in-human, Phase 1 trial assessing the safety and immunogenicity of ...
Two Gaps to Fill for the 2021-2022 Winter Wave of COVID-19 Cases
Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proven right. A year ago this week, the communications ...
Applying Lessons from Annual Flu Vaccine Strain Selection to COVID Variants
While the future of the pandemic remains uncertain, we’ll probably have to live with COVID-19 for some time. We face ...
