To combat the influenza virus, researchers are investigating ways to destabilize its genome, composed of eight RNA molecules. However, each RNA segment is bound to a complex assembly of proteins that ...

Researchers uncover how influenza A virus infects dairy cattle, revealing the mammary gland's surprising role in viral ...

or antigenic shift (which for flu is usually the acquisition of a whole new segment of RNA). Any scientist or physician interested in the influenza virus itself, and all its fascinating ...

The influenza genome is very compact and contained in virus particles that are ~ 100 ... ribonucleoprotein complexes containing the RNA segment, a nuclear protein and the polymerase complex ...