Revealed: How polyomavirus tricks our cells into helping it build its invasion route

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) If every cell in our body is a factory, viruses are industrial spies who try to break in and take over. New findings about how one of the most mysterious types of spy - polyomaviruses -- accomplishes this feat could aid the fight against Merkel cell carcinoma, and diseases in organ transplant and cancer patients.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news