A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

A virus once known for causing cold sores could potentially give cancer patients a fighting chance. Read Joe Biden doctor's ...

Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...

Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and ...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two‑thirds of the world's population and is generally ...

One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.

University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically modifying HSV-1 and administering it to patients with treatment-resistant, ...

Scientists in Spain and China discovered that HSV-1 begins rewriting the architecture of human genes just one hour after ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after ...

New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and La Jolla Institute for Immunology, published today in ...