Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and ...

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

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 ...

Ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea with only 6 of 25 aboard found We Tasted 11 Brands of Vanilla Ice ...

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

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, ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two‑thirds of the world's population and is generally associated with oral herpes, may cause painful cold sores or fever blisters ...

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

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