H7N9 Virus Is Still for the Birds (For Now) (IMAGE)

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H7N9 Virus Is Still for the Birds (For Now)

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Binding of avian-like glycan receptors (yellow spheres) to the 2013 H7N9 influenza virus hemagglutinin (in ribbon diagram). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 6 December, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Rui Xu at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Preferential Recognition of Avian-Like Receptors in Human Influenza A H7N9 Viruses."

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[Image courtesy of Rui Xu, The Scripps Research Institute]

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