Culturing hepatitis C

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An unusual strain of hepatitis C virus (HCV) strain (JFH-1) is found to be very infectious, thereby raising the possibility of developing a robust cell culture system. The developments in the HCV cell culture system might reveal a great deal about why some HCV strains remain uncultured.

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For mTOR, clarification and confusion

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Two laboratories have discovered a mammalian component of mammalian target of rapamycin 2 (mTOR2), the rapamycin-insensitive complex. The mutliprotein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, are found to be interesting because mTOR's binding partner has defined two distinct pathways.

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Selling the self-evident

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The press normally does not give enough coverage to scientific findings but suggests that self-evident findings should be given more press coverage due to the faith they help create in the people of the world.

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