Replicating virus
a virus-like "replicon' that can like the hepatitis C virus (hcv) produce proteins has been created in the laboratory by a team led by Charles Rice at the Washington University in St Louis, us . Till now efforts to determine just how an infection develops and how to combat it with antiviral drugs have been stalled by difficulties faced in growing hcv s in the laboratory. An estimated one per cent of the us population alone
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