HIV and some influenza viruses have been known to use tentacles to help them enter into cells. Many viruses change the cells they infect, and growing tentacles is one way they do it, says Columbia ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

If we can use this knowledge to develop vaccines using the parts of the virus that T cells recognize, we might be able to protect ourselves from future flu mutations." Currently, human influenza ...

Influenza A viruses are further classified into subtypes based on two surface proteins: hemagglutinin (H), which helps the virus enter cells, and neuraminidase (N), which helps the virus spread to ...