UCLA team’s results could lead to ways to improve antiviral therapy A new technique developed by researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has allowed them to become the first scientists...

Interferon is a crucial component of the human immune system’s response to infection by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), but how important a role it plays in determining the severity of disease...

More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the population – are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to WHO’s first global estimates of HSV-1 infection published...