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

Modified Herpes Virus as a Weapon Against Skin Cancer? A new study suggests it might work—even for metastases deep within the ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to ...

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

Over 800 million people have genital herpes — and in many cases the virus can flare up over a person's lifetime, causing painful symptoms. So why doesn't the world pay more attention?