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Artificial Liver Culture as Platform for Hep C Research

Posted on July 18, 2008

At the UCSD School of Medicine researchers have developed a tissue culture that can model the behavior of a HCV infected liver. This is the first efficient and consistent model system for HCV to be developed, said Buck [Martina Buck, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego s Department of Medicine and Moores UCSD Cancer Center --ed.], adding that it will now enable researchers not only to conduct mechanistic experiments in culture, such as blocking the virus pathways, but also to more effectively screen possible therapies for HCV. There is a need for new treatments, an...

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