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A team led by Harvard researchers has discovered a family of naturally occurring proteins in human cells that protect against influenza and other illnesses—a finding that may lead to methods to speed up vaccine production and to new flu prevention drugs for humans.
Shedding greater light on the human body’s first-line defense against the flu virus, the researchers found that the family of flu-fighting proteins—called the interferon-inducible transmembrane (IFITM) proteins—prevented or slowed down most virus particles from infecting human cells early...
The study found that the family of proteins generated by these key genes, known as IFITM, plays a major role in protecting cells against the flu.
Brass and Elledge said that they next seek to determine how IFITM works in preventing the flu. For now, the discovery of these native anti-viral proteins may bode well for the battle against influenza.
In what Harvard hopes is a foreshadowing of things to come in tomorrow’s matinee against the Hoyas at the Verizon Center., Cornell defeated St. John’s last night, 71-66, to win the Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival.