An infection with Epstein-Barr virus is a nonevent for most people. But for a subset, the virus can contribute to chronic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that ...

Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

An Anglo-American team of researchers has devised a new computational method for quantifying Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) ...

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared to eight hours after being infected with HSV-1 (right). The virus compacts the human genome’s size significantly and moves it towards 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 the ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

Lab-grown life has taken a dramatic leap forward after scientists used artificial intelligence to create a virus that has ...