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Monday, January 30, 2012

Cell Permeable Peptide Identified that Inhibits Hepititis C Replication

Discovery Could Lead to a New Treatment for a Disease that Impacts up to 160 Million People Worldwide

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a cell-permeable peptide that inhibits a hepatitis C virus protein and blocks viral replication, which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.

This finding by Dr. Samuel French, an assistant professor of pathology and senior author of the study, builds on previous work by the French laboratory that identified two cellular proteins that are important factors in hepatitis C virus infection.

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