• Question: what expeiriments are you doing to find a cure for chronic HCV disease?

    Asked by thomascockram9 to PB on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Peter Balfe

      Peter Balfe answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      What’s really strange in HCV infection is that 1 person in 5 gets rid of their virus (clears their infection) whereas the rest don’t , we’re trying to answer a one word question, “why?”.

      We’re finding out how the virus grows, what it needs to spread through the liver and how it “sets up shop” in a newly infected person. Defining all the things that make this virus tick. Somewhere in there is the answer.

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