Virginia Tech researchers discovered the largest known latent virus infecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga long thought to be virus-free. Named Punuivirus, it integrates into the host ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

HIV Cure Nearer With Way to 'Shock and Kill' Latent Virus. Published Mar 27, 2024 at 1:55 PM EDT Updated Mar 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM EDT. By . Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in ...

A new credit card-sized tuberculosis (TB) test, requiring no electricity, could revolutionize detection in HIV hotspots by ...

IT IS now widely accepted that most adults are latently infected with the virus of herpes simplex.1 , 2 This latent infection may be activated by a large number of apparently dissimilar stimuli suc ...

The "shock and kill" strategy combines LRA with antiretroviral treatment (ART). LRA is used to reactivate latent HIV, prompting infected cells to produce the virus, which can then be targeted and ...

Still, it can remain in your body as a latent, or dormant, infection. Over 80% of the general population has antibodies against BK virus, which means that many people have been exposed to it.

G enetic and lifestyle factors, along with repeated head trauma, have long been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 1 In comparison, the hypothesis that viruses like herpes ...