Herpesvirus — Precision Vaccinations

Questions and Answers

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Dec 10

6 min read

NRF2 Transcription Factor Plays an Important Role in Herpes Infections

Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing to better understand herpesvirus infections

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Herpes Simplex 1

Herpes Simplex 2

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Dec 5

7 min read

Herpes & HIV Have a Strong Biological Association

HSV-2 infection increases susceptibility to HIV acquisition because both viruses increase the transmissibility of the other

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Dec 4

6 min read

Herpes Virus Linked to Multiple Sclerosis

Herpes virus 6A and 6B can infect our brain cells but they do it in different ways

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Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

Fact checked by Kelley Lu, PharmD

Nov 21

6 min read

Cornell Researchers Found ‘What’ Switches Herpesviruses On

Herpes simplex virus particles can activate and replicate using the cells' machinery to start a lytic infection causing disease

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Fact checked by John Paul Sanchez, PharmD

Oct 28

5 min read

Inflammatory Protein Might Protect Women From Spreading Herpes

Researchers discover protein function that could improve herpes therapeutics

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases