Pressurized virus blasts its infectious DNA into human cells

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

The virus that causes those painful lip blisters known as cold sores has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its infectious DNA into human cells,...

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