Rabies races up nerve cells

Virus may speed to the brain by hitching a ride with a protein

FAST TRACK  A nerve cell protein (inset, glowing red) resides throughout the splayed tip of a mouse nerve and ferries the rabies virus (green dots in inset) up cells’ long extensions (green diagonal lines).

Eran Perlson and colleagues

The rabies virus may take the express train to the brain.