Researchers at Stanford Medicine found that people who produce more sialic acid tend to have milder flu symptoms.

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus ...

Sialic acid levels on antibodies reduce flu severity by controlling inflammation, not viral replication. This discovery could ...

Sialic acid (blue links) at the end of sugar chains attached to antibodies (red) induce the antibodies to bind to receptors ...