Here, we report the development of activatable, masked lytic peptides that take advantage of over-expressed MMPs to elicit selective cytotoxicity against the triple negative breast cancer cell line, ...

What if I told you that seven human viruses cause 15% of all human cancers? Scary, isn't it? Viruses cause cancer, but how? This is the question that Dr. Annabel Olson is trying to answer during her ...

When viral DNA is more “liquidy,” it is more easily injected into host cells—so easily, in fact, that multiple virus-carrying capsids may squeeze their DNA payloads into a host cell simultaneously.

The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

Phase I clinical and pharmacokinetic (PK) trial of the kinesin spindle protein (KSP) inhibitor MK-0731 in cancer patients No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that infect bacteria and have amazing structural and functional diversity. When a bacteriophage infects a bacterium, it can hijack the molecular machinery of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 44-year-old man was referred for evaluation of hypercalcemia. He had atraumatic rib and clavicle fractures in ...