Tag: hepatitis B virus

New Study Provides Detailed View of How Hepatitis B Virus Establishes Chronic Infection

March 15, 2021
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Princeton, NJ — Researchers at Princeton have determined how five cellular proteins contribute to an essential step in the life cycle of hepatitis B virus (HBV). The article describing these findings...

Researchers Identify Factors Essential for Chronic Hepatitis B Infection

March 10, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Researchers at Princeton University have identified a set of human proteins that the hepatitis B virus (HBV) uses to establish itself permanently inside liver cells. The study, published...

New Approach for Potential Treatment of Liver Cancer Patients with Hep B Virus Infection

March 28, 2019
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Singapore — Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Lion TCR have demonstrated that they were able to engineer HBV-specific T cells, a type of immune cells found...

Sensitive New Assay Detects Hepatitis B Infection in Single Liver Cells and Serum

April 12, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA — A study describes a new HBV assay that offers advantages over currently used methods because it has the capability to detect closed circular DNA (cccDNA) in serum, single cells, and...

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