The research team led by Prof. Chen Xinwen from WIV recently made great progress in innate immune pathway regulation, identifying an alternatively spliced isoform of MITA lacking exon 7, termed MITA-related protein (MRP), the findings of which has been published in the internationally prestigious journal, namely, The Journal of Immunology. The team identified an alternatively spliced isoform of...
Recently, the research group led by Prof. Luo, Min-Hua in Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS has achieved significant progress on establishing and characterizing the first nerve cell model for Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) latent infection, namely, HCMV latently infected T98G glioblastoma cell model. Relevant research results have been published in the Journal of Virology (JV) as the spotlight art...
Recently, a team led by Prof. Wang Hanzhong of WIV made big progress in research of virus labeling by Nano material for the visibility of interaction between the virus and host cell. Relevant article has been published on the academic journal Biomaterials. Virus single-particle labeling and tracking technology offers us new perspective into the interaction between virus and its host cell. Now t...
Dr Qinxue Hu’s group in Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) reports a potential new mechanism underlying HSV-2-mediated enhancement of HIV-1 mucosal transmission (J Immunol, 2012 Jun 15;188(12):6247-57). The article has been selected and evaluated by Faculty of 1000. http://f1000.com/716997883 Epithelial cells are the main targets of HSV-2 while HIV-1 preferentially infects CD4+ T cells. It has ...
