Parker Denz, PhD (@parkerjdenz.bsky.social)

🚨🚨 Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum virus dose threshold for influenza and also enhances adaptation of the virus to a new species.🦠🫁 Major implications for preventing new pandemics. 😷 Proud of first author Parker Denz!👨‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Innate immune control of influenza virus interspecies adaptation via IFITM3 - Nature Communications This study highlights that IFITM3 deficiency lowers the minimum infectious dose of influenza virus, enhances adaptation of influenza viruses to a new host species, and broadly increases infection of h... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53792-3