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Researchers, In A First, Used Novel ViViD-AFM To Capture At Highest Resolution Influenza Invading Living Human Cells. The Virus Exploits The Cell’s Own Delivery System Using HA/NA Proteins. Cells Actively Pocket The Virus With Clathrin, Overturning Views That Viruses Force Their Way In, Opening New Antiviral Paths, Including HIV Studies.

How influenza viruses enter our cells | ETH Zurich

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/12/how-influenza-viruses-enter-our-cells.html

For the first time, researchers have observed live and in high resolution how influenza viruses infect living cells. This was possible thanks to a new microscopy technique, which could now help to develop antiviral therapies in a more targeted manner.