Sep. 9, 2024 — Around 300,000 people die from hepatitis C every year. A new study has mapped the protein complex that enables the virus to infect our cells, potentially paving the way for an ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection imposes a severe burden on global public health. Currently, there are no curative therapies for millions of chronic HBV-infected patients (Lok et al., 2017).

Introduction: For complete or functional cure of hepatitis B virus (HBV ... Mouse serum samples were incubated with the virus (3,000 GEq/cell) in the inoculation medium for one hour at 37°C before ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

Biological scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) - commonly known as bad cholesterol - have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease.

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Once confined to sportsmen and women, high-protein diets are now commonplace – with Paleo, Atkins, Zone and Dukan advocating that people eat large quantities of fish, meat, eggs, nuts and cheese ...

The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

the final molar concentration of GST should be the same as that of the GST fusion probe protein). 5| Incubate the tubes for 2 h at 4 °C with end-over-end mixing, and centrifuge the samples at ...