Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), a common virus that is apparently harmless in adults, appears to prevent a form of the AIDS virus from reproducing in laboratory cultures of human tissue, according to a ...

Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal JCI Insight. Photo ...

Scientists discovered strikingly high levels of a common virus in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, a finding that points to a potential cause for the neurological disorder. Researchers ...

Kimberly LaPlante’s second pregnancy was as uneventful as her first. She suffered numerous colds, probably caught from her older daughter, Georgia, who was in day care. But LaPlante wasn’t concerned. ...

IOWA CITY - Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and University of Iowa (UI) researchers have unlocked part of the mystery of how a harmless virus known as GBV-C slows the progression of HIV ...

A usually harmless childhood virus may hide in the lungs and come back to cause wheezing and other symptoms of asthma, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. They found evidence that respiratory ...

Two independent studies of children in the UK who developed unexplained liver damage, or hepatitis, have found a virus called adeno-associated virus 2 in nearly all of them, but not in other similar ...

April 11 -- FRIDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- A common, harmless human virus can target and kill breast cancer stem cells, Canadian researchers report. "We suspected that reovirus might be ...

California Institute of Technology President Dr. David Baltimore joins guest Host Patt Morrison to talk about Virus Like Particles, or VLPs. VLPs are non-infectious mimics of viruses and can trigger a ...

(Nanowerk News) To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach ...