However, viruses are dynamic—constantly evolving and changing shape, which can make designing antiviral treatments a challenge. But new research utilizes an innovative computational modeling approach ...

This isn't necessarily new info, but experts hadn't observed this specific shape-shifting in the flu before. Viruses generally tend to mutate to become more infectious, explains infectious disease ...

Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 ... an innovative computational modeling approach to capture the complex and diverse shapes that viral proteins can adopt. The work was presented at the ...

In this case, flu A viruses have learned to mutate to stay alive longer, which in turn makes it more likely that you (and everyone around you) gets infected. “With a change in genome, it can rapidly ...