image: 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." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Rui Xu, The Scripps Research Institute]