Deadly virus reveals its secret
About fifty million individuals worldwide are affected by chronic hepatitis C virus;an infection that causes liver cancer. It has been one of the most expensive virus infections to treat, and it is an ongoing threat to global health. Now the virus has revealed a secret to a group of researchers in Denmark after five years of intensive work.
Jens Degett interviews Jannick Prentoe (ORCID ID profile) from the Hvidovre Hospital and the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
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More information on the topic can be found in the article "The hepatitis C virus envelope protein complex is a dimer of heterodimers" published in Nature (September 4, 2024).