Most people infected with human herpesvirus 8, also called Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, likely will not have any health issues or symptoms from it. The virus is not curable, but it stays dormant in people with …
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Identifying Ways HIV Tricks Cells into Making More Virus
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists at the Institute of Molecular Virology have uncovered a clever strategy that HIV-1 uses to squeeze more viral particles out of every cell it infects. A recent research paper published in …
Hepatitis B virus strains the cell’s DNA repair defenses
Cancer and diseases associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection kill over 800,000 people every year. Antiviral therapies are rarely able to cure patients of HBV infection. To try to answer why, researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Institute of Molecular Virology are investigating where and how the virus persists in human cells.