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The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow ...

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Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

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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 ...

Could common viruses silently influence your brain health? Discover what new research reveals about herpes and dementia.

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

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