<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d2b16cdb-b09e-4fb5-bdd0-b79cc11535d9/712E0F0B-B7B1-4B6F-A3DB-F7790BAF875B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q" href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q" style="font-size: 11px;">canadianpress.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q"><H1>MIT scientists find reason avian flu viruses don't easily infect people</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">Influenza experts say the work may also provide clues to a couple of mysteries about the pattern of human H5N1 infections to date, namely whether some people are more genetically susceptible to the virus than others and why children seem to make up a disproportionate percentage of human cases.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">The researchers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">identified the shape of cell receptors to which invading avian viruses can attach and where those receptors are found in the upper airways and lungs of humans.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">H5N1 viruses currently latch on to cone-like receptors and would have to mutate to be able to dock to the umbrella-like receptors</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">it was thought that the issue of which cells avian and human flu viruses could attach to broke down on simple lines.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsy-4r3ulBc0Seiy9XGyJJ7s059Q">Sasisekharan and his colleagues set out to look more precisely at the strings of sugar molecules that make up these receptors.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/712E0F0B-B7B1-4B6F-A3DB-F7790BAF875B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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