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A research team, led by Professor Dai Wei (front right), has discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), can change the 3D structure of the human genome inside cancer cells. This groundbreaking finding reveals the mechanism by which EBV actively promotes cancer progression and offers promising avenues for developing targeted therapies for patients, with the aim of saving even more lives.

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