Study Shows Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Effective
A new needle-free flu vaccine patch revved up the immune system much like a traditional flu shot without any negative side effects, according to a…
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Genetic Mutation Linked to Flu-Related Heart Complications
Study in mice first to connect genes, flu, and cardiovascular problems. People with severe flu sometimes develop life-threatening heart problems, even when their hearts have…
NMR Spectroscopy Reveals How Cholesterol Molecules Bind to a Flu Protein
After a flu virus infects a host cell and hijacks its inner workings to create copies of itself, these copies gather into viral buds that…
New Research Reveals How Flu Viruses Gain the Ability to Spread
In a new study, scientists reveal that the soft palate (the soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth) plays a key…
Video Animation on How a Flu Virus Works
This year’s flu, called H3N2, is affecting many people this season and this three minute video with NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky…
Synthesizing a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
A new vaccine strategy, which uses synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to…
Mutated Protein Allows Flu’s Lethality in Some Patients
The flu can be lethal in some patients, but benign in others. The reason that this is the way that flu infections work might be…
Flu Infections and MRSA Combine into Lethal Cocktail in Maryland
MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can be even deadlier when it is combined with a virulent flu infection. It’s been reported that a family of five…