In a preclinical study, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have developed a highly targeted gene therapy that could revolutionize treatment for cancers linked to a common herpesvirus, ...

The Herpes simplex virus is a widespread virus that often causes cold sores, and most people carry it. By removing a ...

Viruses are ancient. They have been infecting animals, our ancestors included, for hundreds of millions of years before the first humans ever showed up. And the legacy of those primordial infections ...

UCSF researchers are advancing care through scientific breakthroughs that pave the way for less addictive pain medications ...

A federal grant for HIV research is part of $15.7 million the National Institutes for Health awarded to the Wertheim UF ...

New research is raising the possibility that a virus that is seemingly otherwise harmless to humans could possibly trigger ...

Gene drive technology is powerful and slightly frightening. But the coronavirus pandemic reminds us that we want to have multiple weapons in the public health arsenal, should we be confronted with ...

A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday. Results show that all ...

There’s a bromance of nightmares lurking where you least suspect it — on handrails, doorknobs, even your own skin. These innocuous places are meeting grounds for viruses and bacteria, a microscopic ...

One of the most detailed studies to date of how the interaction between genes and environment results in disease has demonstrated that an inflammatory bowel disease resembling human Crohn's needs a ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

Researchers have discovered a new 'hidden' gene in SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- that may have contributed to its unique biology and pandemic potential. In a virus that only has ...