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Scientists discover Hepatitis C virus critical protein structure

Scientists discover Hepatitis C virus critical protein structure

Scientists discover Hepatitis C virus critical protein structure. It is estimated that around 60 million people worldwide suffer from chronic HCV-related infections. The virus infects the liver cells, causing the condition of a "silent" infection for decades until liver damage is sufficient to trigger symptoms. A team of scientists from Scripps Research and the University of Amsterdam is achieving an important goal in the field of virology that is mapping, with high resolution, the critical proteins that examine the surface of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and allow the virus to enter the host cell. The research, published in Science on…
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Experts warn of the emergence of COVID Variants amid the soaring cases in China

Experts warn of the emergence of COVID Variants amid the soaring cases in China

Experts warn of the emergence of COVID Variants amid the soaring cases in China. China has announced that visitors will no longer be required to be quarantined from January 8, the most recent major shift in stricter restrictions which have been keeping the country mostly closed to the outside world since the beginning of this pandemic. The country's National Health Commission has stopped the daily release of cases; officials in various cities believe there are hundreds of thousands who've contracted the disease over the past few months. The crematoriums and hospitals are overloaded across the nation, France24 reported. As the…
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