Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes on bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle
Cows have the same kinds of gateways into their cells as humans and birds, a new study shows. The finding suggests that cows ...
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Widespread expression of avian and human influenza A virus receptors in bovine mammary glands
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, analyzed the expression of avian and human influenza A virus receptors in ...
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Study shows cows harbor both human and avian flu receptors in their mammary glands
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaIn a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint* server, researchers used lectin histochemistry to ...
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New technique improves T cell-based immunotherapies for solid tumors
Part of this fort is made up of layers of sugar molecules, the outermost of which is a substance called sialic acid. To remove this sialic acid barrier, the research team fused the enzyme sialidase ...
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About 1 in 5 milk samples from grocery stores show traces of bird flu virus, FDA says
The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that about 1 out of 5 milk samples it has tested from grocery stores has ...
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Supplementation With the Sialic Acid Precursor N-Acetyl-D-Mannosamine Breaks the Link Between Obesity and Hypertension
Effects of normalizing IgG sialylation were determined in HFD-fed mice administered the sialic acid precursor N-acetyl-D-mannosamine (ManNAc). Mice deficient in B cells were protected from ...