The low-carb, high-fat diet increases the presence of gamma-delta T cells in the animals’ lungs, improving a mucus barrier against the virus.

Antibiotics disrupt the immune response to the influenza vaccine in people who haven’t recently had exposure to the virus or immunization.

A specific type of lung cell withstands flu infection by doubling down on DNA repair.

Executives at a biotech that develops new antibodies argue that Ram Sasisekharan didn’t come up with the structures for at least two experimental therapies that his group has described.

Mice exposed to heat wave temperatures ate less and showed weakened immune responses to the virus.

Numerous experimental vaccines that aim to provide multi-season protection are in human studies.

Despite the treatment being given for only six weeks, the positive effects lasted for a year.

Vaccination reduced the risk of death by two-thirds for children with no other health problems.  

They may be a prospective source for an influenza pandemic, researchers warn.