HBV's Ability to Infect Human Liver Cells Thwarted by Potential Anticancer Drug

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HBV's Ability to Infect Human Liver Cells Thwarted by Potential Anticancer Drug

As part of their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish an infection in liver cells, researchers led by teams at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Rockefeller University have identified a vulnerability that may open the door to new HBV treatments. The team successfully disrupted the virus’s ability to infect human liver cells in the…