This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the sixth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

This story is part of our series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. The story is also the second installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes ...

Scientists have published a ground-breaking study of the structure and function of a central protein in the liver: NTCP, a cellular-entry pathway for bile salts, but also for certain hepatitis viruses ...

Panel A shows the structure of HDV, which shares the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) envelope with hepatitis B virus. The virion contains a single-stranded, circular RNA genome of approximately ...

A new discovery points the way toward an effective HCV vaccine. A team led by scientists at Scripps Research and the University of Amsterdam has achieved an important goal in virology: mapping, at ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. While antiviral drugs ...

A team led by scientists at Scripps Research and the University of Amsterdam has achieved an important goal in virology: mapping, at high resolution, critical proteins that stud the surface of the ...

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research in Cancer (WHO-IARC) has now declared hepatitis D, a little-known but deadly virus, carcinogenic, with the hope that it will lead to ...

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects the liver and can cause acute or chronic illness. The virus’s life cycle involves entering liver cells and producing new virus cells to trigger infections in other ...