H5N1 first raised alarms in 1997 when it infected 18 people ... These mutations involve changes in two viral components: the RNA polymerase, an enzyme that replicates, or copies, the virus’s genome, ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed more H5N1 avian ...

Secondly, neuraminidase (the "N" in H5N1), the exit protein, which enables the virus to detach itself from the infected cell. And finally, polymerase ... true for an RNA virus like influenza ...

Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses ...

A report published by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) details the characterization of viral sequences obtained from the milk of ...

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (”Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today issued a reminder to its shareholders to vote ahead of a reconvening of a ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and collaborators evaluated a replicating RNA (repRNA) vaccine ...

CNN reports a Nevada dairy worker may have been infected by deadly D1.1 version of H5N1 bird flu Worker shows only mild symptoms Genetic analyses of this version show changes that could make it ...

Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from the strain detected in all other herds to this point in the ongoing dairy outbreak. It's the same strain that killed ...

Veterinary and public health officials are urging cat owners to remain vigilant as cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or H5N1, commonly known as bird flu, have been detected in domestic cats.