Sep 23, 2019 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new vaccine candidate to protect against herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), the...

Mar 19, 2019 by News Staff

Latent herpes viruses such as herpes-simplex-1 (HSV-1), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivate in...

Jul 3, 2018 by News Staff

In search of a way to rejuvenate the immune system of older adults, a team of scientists from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and elsewhere...

Jun 21, 2018 by News Staff

Herpesviruses 6A and 7 (HHV-6A and HHV-7) — two of the nine known members of the Herpesviridae family that infect humans — are found in the...

Oct 3, 2017 by News Staff

New research from the University of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes University predicts which species acted as an intermediary between the ancestors of Homo...

Jul 13, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) that is very similar to Epstein-Barr virus in humans. A...

Apr 11, 2016 by News Staff

A new study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that the transfer of infectious pathogens between populations of Neanderthals...

Feb 18, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists, led by Dr. Reed Shabman of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Prof. Christopher Basler of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

Genomic sequences of 31 Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) strains collected in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia support the ‘out-of-Africa’...

Jul 25, 2013 by News Staff

Herpes simplex virus 1 has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its DNA into human cells, according...

Apr 5, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...