What price antiviral drugs?
…infected individuals, HCV is a much larger public health threat than HIV. Furthermore, the new HCV antivirals can eliminate the virus completely, whereas anti-HIV drugs only suppress virus replication, so…
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PMRV joins XMRV as possible etiologic agent of chronic fatigue syndrome
The new human retrovirus XMRV, first detected in malignant prostate tissue, was subsequently identified in a high percentage of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The virus was not detected…
CRISPR-ing herpes simplex virus
…infection with either herpes simplex virus type 1 or 2 (HSV-1 or -2), and currently available therapeutics do not clear latent viruses or prevent their reactivation. The emergence of CRISPR…
Richard Elliott, virologist
…an infectious DNA clone of poliovirus. It proved very difficult to make infectious DNAs of negative strand RNA viruses, and it was Richard who was the first to accomplish this…
Europic 2008
…family of non-enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses, and includes poliovirus, rhinovirus, and foot-and-mouth disease virus. I have been attending Europic meetings since 1983, when it was held in Urbino, Italy. Not…
Thirty years in my laboratory at Columbia University
…a series of studies on virus attachment to cells and virus entry. We produced transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus, and used them to study aspects of poliovirus replication and pathogenesis,…