influenza

Researchers explored the effects of obesity on the lung microenvironment in ferrets, searching for new therapeutic targets to protect vulnerable populations.

Researchers access a wide range of tools and reagents to keep pace with seasonal influenza.

Influenza infection activates a pathway that leads to a detrimental drop in progesterone during pregnancy in mice.

Timely modulation of a common signaling pathway can preserve influenza memory in lung T cells.

Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.

Scientists prepare for the future by filling in the research gaps between zoonotic viral reservoirs, emerging viruses, and human immune defenses.

Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.

By engineering structures out of DNA, scientists could potentially prevent larger viruses, like coronaviruses and influenza viruses, from interacting with cells.

The “tripledemic” shines a spotlight on viral interference, in which one infection can block another.

It’s not clear why grain-fed mice are better able to recover after infection, but a study’s findings suggest food type may skew the results of animal studies.

Researchers find signatures pre- and post-vaccination that correlate with a more robust immune response. 

When fused to RSV, influenza A virus is better able to escape antibodies that usually neutralize it, an in vitro study finds.

In people with the genetic condition, inflammation can cause a mild infection to snowball out of control, a study finds.

Nearly 50 million birds have been culled amid efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which continues to ravage the Northern Hemisphere.

A unique system measures multiple antigens simultaneously for vaccine development and beyond.

Acute stress makes immune cells migrate immediately to the bone marrow, which prepares the body for injury at the expense of increasing infectious disease susceptibility.

Putting on a mask to protect oneself and others against disease is nothing new, nor is resistance to mask-wearing, but mask designs have changed considerably from their first iterations.

Patrick Wilson discusses the challenges in designing universal vaccines and his work developing one for influenza.

The work reveals that the pandemic flu was likely the direct predecessor of the seasonal H1N1 flu that circulated for decades.