The RNP complex is the influenza virus’s essential package, the virus’s blueprints and a copy machine all rolled in one. The ...

To find the answer, they developed a way to observe and measure real-time influenza A virus structure during formation. The researchers found: Influenza A viruses rapidly adjust their shape when ...

More information: Florian Chenavier et al, Influenza a virus antiparallel helical nucleocapsid-like pseudo-atomic structure, Nucleic Acids Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1211 Provided by CNRS ...

Influenza vaccine efficacy studies entail monitoring ... which can then be sequenced bi-directionally using Sanger technology. The genome structure introduces complications, however.