Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

Adenovirus isn’t as well-known as flu or COVID, but it’s one of the most common viruses people catch — especially in childhood. In fact, most people will have been infected at least once before the ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available ...

Explore the benefits of prenatal DNA screening to detect cytomegalovirus in early pregnancy for better health decisions.

A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing ...

Scientists have found the clearest evidence yet that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – which nearly all of us carry for life – is directly responsible for hijacking our immune system's cells to cause lupus, ...

For years scientists have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—a type of herpesvirus that infects 94 percent of the global population by adulthood and causes mononucleosis (aka “mono”)—might be ...

1 Department of Nephrology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2 Department of Medicine (RMH), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, ...

The authors combine experiments and mathematical modeling to determine how the infectivity of human cytomegalovirus scales with the viral concentration in the inoculum, i.e., considering the ...

One of the most common viruses in the world could be the cause of lupus, an autoimmune disease with wide-ranging symptoms, according to a study published Wednesday. Until now, lupus was somewhat ...

The virus behind glandular fever, also known as mononucleosis or kissing disease, seems to infect and reprogram immune cells in the body, priming some people to develop the autoimmune condition lupus.

For years scientists have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—a type of herpesvirus that infects 94 percent of the global population by adulthood and causes mononucleosis (aka “mono”)—might be ...