Scientists discovered a way to block hepatitis B infection using an anticancer drug, offering hope for new treatments.

Hepatitis δ virus (HDV) is subviral in that it depends upon hepatitis B virus (HBV) for envelope proteins. HDV has an RNA genome smaller ... which is linear, less than full length, 5′-capped ...

Occult HBV infection is defined by the existence of HBV DNA in serum, lymphoid cells (PBMC) and/or the liver and virus-genome replicative intermediates (i.e., covalently closed circular DNA ...

However, I was fascinated to discover that viruses like hepatitis B hijack epigenetic mechanisms, even using human DNA-packaging proteins to regulate their activity.” Not long after, study first ...

one of the smallest DNA viruses in existence, enters susceptible liver cells — known as hepatocytes — and begins replicating. Inside the hepatocytes, HBV produces a surplus of viral antigens ...