Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method to separate between two different types of a common herpes virus (HHV-6) that has been linked to multiple sclerosis. By analyzing antibodies...

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...

The Oregon Zoo announced last week the death of a ix-year-old Asian elephant named Lily. The elephant succumbed to a sudden onset of endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), a rapidly progressing and often...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today permitted marketing of a new diagnostic test to aid in detecting a type of herpes virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV) in newborns less than 21 days of age. “Although...

Today’s topic is hot with 3 major papers in the last few months, that is the viral hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was estimated to affect 35.5 million people worldwide...

The Herpes Virus family consist of a number of viruses–herpes simplex-1 and 2, cytomegalovirus (CMV), Varicella Zoster Virus (VSV) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). EBV infects about nine out of 10...

Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) — a common virus in the herpes family — may have an increased risk of developing acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), according to new research published...