Unlike living organisms, to avoid extinction, viruses need to hijack living host machineries to generate new viruses. The devastating respiratory virus, influenza A virus, utilize its hemagglutinin ...

In recent years, there has been growing concern over the H5N1 influenza virus. It was first identified in birds three decades ago and has now gradually found its way to humans. H5N1 is a strain of the ...

Finding ways to fight the flu just got a tad more ribbeting – that is, if you ask some researchers who have turned their attention to frogs. A new study suggests that mucus from the skin of certain ...

California researchers say the world may be just one genetic tweak away from human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a worrisome mutation that could open the door to widespread human ...

Hemagglutination is a serological assay to identify a suspected virus and detect corresponding antibodies. The assay uses red blood cells as a source of antigens. Hemagglutination is a reaction that ...

We describe a general computational method for designing proteins that bind a surface patch of interest on a target macromolecule. Favorable interactions between disembodied amino acid residues and ...

Production of hemagglutinin (HA) of Haemophilus gallinarum was compared in some media, and its properties were studied. HA was produced in Kato's media, brain heart infusion (BHI) broth containing ...

Could your previous flu infection protect you from bird flu? Scientists find that immunity to 2009 H1N1 slashes the risk of severe H5N1 illness, even after close contact exposure. Study: Preexisting ...