14.12.2012 Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

Human against virus – a molecular race

Immunologists discover a novel target to suppress a common virus. Most people become infected with the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) at some point in life. Over millions of years, our immune system has evolved a trick or two to defend us against this virus, but unfortunately, CMV evolved its own tricks, too. New drugs to target viral genes that counter the immune response might support the immune system in the fight against this widespread virus. The idea ...

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