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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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