It takes a persistent scientist to stop a persistent virus. A decade ago, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center virologist Dr. Keith Jerome began exploring the idea that lifelong infections with ...

Human herpes virus, commonly known as herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2), is like that friend who ends up crashing on your couch and never leaves.

It takes a persistent scientist to stop a persistent virus. A decade ago, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center virologist Dr. Keith Jerome began exploring the idea that lifelong infections with ...

A team identified herpes virus saimiri, which infects the T cells of squirrel monkeys, as a source of proteins that activate pathways in T cells that are needed to promote T cell survival.

This research also highlights a new potential avenue for the development of future antiviral drugs and suggests that other viruses of the herpes family ... then becomes an alternative tool for ...

Patients with IBD were more likely to have complications of herpes zoster than those without IBD, highlighting the importance of vaccination in this population.

William Halford developed a herpes vaccine and tested it on Americans outside the country, garnering criticism. Halford died of cancer at 48 in June 2017. Photo by Jason Johnson, Southern Illinois ...

A Southern Illinois University researcher’s offshore development of a herpes vaccine, which was buoyed by a $7 million investment from Peter Thiel’s investment firm and a related organization ...

Research at three laboratories, including one at the University of New Mexico, have linked herpes to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report in the Public Library of Science ONE publication.

Improvements in gene-editing tools — and patience — keys to success The advances in herpes cure research over the past five years are largely due to a series of improvements in the gene editing tools.