Health officials would like to remind you that we are entering that time of the year still quaintly known as flu season. That ...

The death toll from the flu of 1918 was more than a half ... of our burgeoning understanding of the structure and function of the virus itself. The virus is, after all, the ‘mass murderer ...

The team from The Scripps Research Institute and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies designed a molecule that mimicked the shape of a key ... mutation of the flu virus means new vaccines must be ...

Yet unlike the flu and other common ... vaccines are approved only for pregnant women and the elderly. The virus's structure -- which consists of tiny, bending filaments -- have eluded researchers.

Bird flu, or avian flu, has existed among different bird species ... To understand the risk of H5N1, researchers are working to understand the molecular structure of the virus, the way it moves in the ...