Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a ...

UK researchers have found a common childhood virus that can trigger DNA damage leading to bladder cancer later in life.

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found a common childhood virus that can trigger DNA damage leading to bladder cancer ...

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A common childhood virus, BK virus, dormant in the urinary tract, is now linked to DNA damage increasing bladder cancer risk.

Scientists reviewed DNA damage patterns triggered by the cell's antiviral defences after controlled exposure to the BK virus ...

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according to a new study that may help tackle the pathogen. Viruses ...

Neanderthals may have caught the same viruses that cause modern colds, cold sores, and some cancers. It's possible ancient humans introduced these unfamiliar viruses to their relatives. Understanding ...

Researchers have discovered a tube-shaped structure that forms temporarily in a certain type of virus to deliver its DNA during the infection process and then dissolves after its job is completed. The ...

A new test that 'fishes' for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as 'bait', and gives highly accurate results in under an hour, has been developed by Cambridge researchers ...