Influenza virus replication: Catching the cap-snatcher
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 23:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have determined the detailed three-dimensional structure of part of the flu virus' RNA polymerase, an enzyme that is crucial for influenza virus replication. The research was done on the 2009 pandemic influenza strain but it will help scientists to design innovative drugs against all the different influenza strains.