Before any treatment, each clinician and patient must determine whether the anticipated benefits outweigh the potential toll caused on the body. Study results published in Nature suggest that latent ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A virus that causes a universal childhood infection is often passed from parent to child at birth, not in the blood but in the DNA, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They found ...

The therapy, an infusion of CAR-T cells designed to kill the lymphoma, was going well. Nearly a month after the treatment, the engineered cells had crushed the cancer, and the patient, a 49-year-old ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of the human genome since the Iron Age. Human herpesvirus 6 is nearly universal ...

Dormant herpesviruses induce their reactivation via a previously unknown cellular mechanism mediated by a viral microRNA. Würzburg researchers show this in the journal "Nature". Eight different herpes ...

Pneumonia is a major problem for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants. Despite testing for specific pathogens, up to 10% of transplant recipients are diagnosed with “idiopathic pneumonia ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by a ...