Deadly virus reveals its secret

About fifty million individuals worldwide are affected by chronic hepatitis C virus. It has been one of the most expensive virus infections to treat, and it is an ongoing threat to global health. Now the virus has revealed a secret to a group of researchers in Denmark lead by Jannick Prentoe, from University of Copenhagen, after five years of intensive work. Link to article in Nature: Link to article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07783-5 If you wonder why the podcast is in English, and not Danish it is because we have an increasing number of listeners whenever we publish a podcast in English. Therefore, we make the experiment the next few months to produce all our podcasts in English. This podcast is supported by a Maria Leptin / EMBO Science Journalism Fellowship.