A major scientific breakthrough has identified the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) as the leading cause of multiple sclerosis (MS), ...

The Epstein-Barr virus is one of the most common and persistent human viruses in the world, according to the CDC.

Samples that test negative for the common viruses are then tested by a broad-range virus detection assay, such as a pan-viral microarray, which is capable of detecting viruses that are formally ...

A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which could trigger autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. Login. ... They ...

Viewed from this deep time perspective, it becomes evident that H5N1 is displaying a common pattern of stepwise invasion from animal to human populations. Like many emerging viruses, H5N1 is ...

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses.These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...

To his surprise, Barr instead found that mammalian cancer cells grown in the lab use the viruses as a food source.The results, published in the Oct. 26 PLOS Biology, show that it’s possible for ...