A new mouse model of virus-driven liver cancer may open the door to better diagnosis and treatments

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Source: Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease at The Rockefeller University

Researchers have created the first mouse model in which chronic viral infection progresses to liver cancer, closely mirroring what happens in people with hepatitis C.

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