VIRAL CELL BIOLOGY

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Viral infectious diseases represent one of the world’s highest threats to human health and social wellbeing. Of those, influenza viruses cause 500 million infections every year.

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By understanding the mechanism of virus-host interactions and the cell biology of virus infection, we may be able to develop novel cell-targeted antiviral strategies that combat viral disease.

Discovery of a host cell factor  that

debundles incoming flu vRNPs

(click image for 2019 Nature Microbiology paper)

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 -Nature Research Blog -

Debundling a waddle of flu

ribonucleo-penguins

(click image to read)

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HOW FLU 'MIMICS' 

PROTEIN WASTE TO ENTER CELLS

(click below for    article)

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