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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 […]