Possible new antivirals against COVID-19, herpes
Clinically approved antiviral drugs are currently available for only 10 of the more than 220 viruses known to infect humans. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has...
Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech...
New research reveals that the way viruses were perceived in terms of their architecture will need to be retooled, because they are actually structured...
Does herpes cause Alzheimer’s?
What causes Alzheimer's disease? The answer could be right under our noses, says leading expert Professor Ruth Itzhaki. Her latest paper presents a lifetime...
Meet the hominin species that gave us genital herpes
This is a cast of a P. boisei skull, used for teaching at Cambridge University
Credit: Louise Walsh
Two herpes simplex viruses infect primates from unknown...
Autism risk linked to herpes infection during pregnancy
Women actively infected with genital herpes during early pregnancy had twice the odds of giving birth to a child later diagnosed with autism spectrum...
Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers—which should...
Immune system mounts a lasting defense after recovery from COVID-19, researchers find
As the number of people who have fought off SARS-CoV-2 climbs ever higher, a critical question has grown in importance: How long will their...
Unique new antiviral treatment made using sugar
New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed to destroy viruses on contact and may help in the fight against viral outbreaks.
This new development from...
How measles wipes out the body’s immune memory
Over the last decade, evidence has mounted that the measles vaccine protects in not one but two ways: Not only does it prevent the...
Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight
Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in...
Artificial intelligence detects the presence of viruses
Many biosensing applications rely on characterization of specific analytes such as proteins, viruses and bacteria, among many other targets, which can be accomplished by...
