A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

Modified Herpes Virus as a Weapon Against Skin Cancer? A new study suggests it might work—even for metastases deep within the ...

Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first virus-based cancer therapy, ...

One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.

Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...

The Epstein-Barr virus is one of the most common and persistent human viruses in the world, according to the CDC.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to ...

University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically modifying HSV-1 and administering it to patients with treatment-resistant, ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two-thirds of the world's population and is generally ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in ...