5/28/2021:  Influenza viruses sometimes jump to a new host causing infections in (farm) animals and zoonotic disease in humans. Researchers from Royal GD (Erhard van der Vries) and the University of Twente (Nico Overeem and Jurriaan Huskens) developed a method, called multivalent affinity profiling (MAP), to measure virus binding profiles on receptor density gradients to determine the threshold receptor density, which is a quantitative measure of virus avidity toward a receptor. Read the report

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