You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is a virus that can reactivate in individuals, particularly after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This reactivation can lead to serious complications ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. As early as the 1990s, researchers proposed that a very common type of herpes virus—then known as human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6)—could be somehow ...

MSK researchers are helping to map the landscape of viruses that infect us all, and to analyze the impact they have on human health and disease.

Inflammation can reawaken dormant viruses ... the human brain. The new research, published Tuesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Science Advances, used brain models measuring only 0.2 inches (6 ...

had discovered that the human herpes virus type 6 (HHV6) increases sharply in saliva when fatigue builds up. HHV6 is the virus that causes exanthema subitum, a disease in infants. Almost all ...

Some of the human brain-like tissue had been housing a latent infection with a herpes virus, the type that causes cold sores. And the impact of the piston — intended to mimic a concussion ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 2, 2025 – University of Pittsburgh researchers uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s disease and herpes simplex virus-1 ... models of human brains in a Petri ...

Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding disease caused by herpes simplex virus corneal infection ... is the current standard of care for human HSK. Future therapies will probably ...

A study using lab-made models of the brain suggests that a herpes virus may be a key link between ... including lab-grown models of the human brain. The new research, published Tuesday (Jan ...