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, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

Genome size also matters: its radius of gyration influences the most stable shell size. Though capsid proteins can assemble around various RNA lengths or even nanoparticles, our study focused on how a ...

Hepatitis B virus infection remains one of the leading causes of liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite widespread vaccination and antiviral treatments, millions of ...