Digging into a decades-old hepatitis B mystery suggests a new potential treatment

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Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens the door to new treatments.

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