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HIV’s Hidden Roots: Why Curing the Virus is Like Eradicating a Deeply Embedded Plant
Imagine the HIV reservoir in people on successful antiretroviral therapy (ART) not as a single, easily cornered fugitive, but as seeds from an incredibly stubborn weed, scattered throughout the complex garden of your body. A new research article from Belgium (1) reveals how these “seeds” have taken root in the fertile ground of the blood, […]
Dengue & Zika: Energy Theft Exposed
Big news in flavivirus research! A new iScience study, led by Laurent Chatel-Chaix’s team, reveals how dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses orchestrate a sophisticated cellular hijacking (1). These viruses alter the communication between the cell’s power plant, the mitochondria, and its factory, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The key? They disrupt almost half of ER-mitochondria […]
Yeehaw! A New Sheriff’s in Town, and It’s Wrangling Cancer!
Big news from the cancer frontier! Researchers have developed NDV-GT, a genetically modified Newcastle Disease Virus, and it’s showing real promise (1). This “sheriff” virus is engineered to express a porcine gene, α1,3GT, to boost the anti-tumor effect of this oncolytic virus. Once specifically infected with the NDV-GT, tumor cells then express the non-self αGal […]
