Virus discovery: 'blast' mechanism used to infect host

Researchers have discovered the first "pressure-driven infection mechanism" in a human virus, which blasts infectious DNA into cells with pressure eight times higher than that of a typical car tire. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, suggests that this discovery could open the door to new treatments for viral infections. Researchers from the US and Sweden analyzed the pressure inside the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), the infection that causes cold sores...
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