Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

All organisms — from fungi to mammals — have the capacity to evolve and adapt to their environments. But viruses are master shapeshifters with an ability to mutate greater than any other organism. As ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Infection with the virus that’s the main cause of cold sores may double a person’s risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. Adding to growing evidence of a link between the two, further ...

Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that will make you thankful for the existence of herpes and other viruses.

GSK Plc (NYSE:GSK) shelved on Wednesday its herpes simplex virus (HSV) vaccine development program. The recombinant protein vaccine, dubbed GSK3943104, did not meet the study’s primary efficacy ...

Diagnoses of HSV-1 and other herpesviruses, including HSV-2, which commonly causes genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus (VZV, aka chickenpox/shingles), and cytomegalovirus (CMV). The researchers ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...