The hepatitis C virus, or HCV, causes a chronic liver infection that can lead to permanent liver scarring and, in dire cases, cancer. Decades of research have pinpointed HCV E1E2, the only protein on the surface of the virus, as the most promising vaccine candidate. With new technology, we were able to visualize the molecular details of this elusive protein, …
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Scripps Research in San Diego unraveled the structure of the hepatitis C virus’s spike protein. It took the Amsterdam and San Diego researchers years to figure out what the hepatitis C virus’s spike protein looks like. We now want to use this information to better understand the hepatitis C virus and to design a vaccine.” …
SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be causing the mysterious cases of severe hepatitis in hundreds of young children around the world, researchers suggest. According to a report posted on Saturday on medRxiv ahead of peer review, children with Covid-19 are at significantly increased risk for liver dysfunction afterward. If that were true, they theorize, then lingering particles of the coronavirus in the …
