A study by researchers at Ohio State University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found a large number of ancient viruses in ice core samples collected from a glacier on the Tibetan plateau that were approximately 15,000 years old.

Herpesviruses have been isolated from a wide range of hosts including humans-for which, nine species have been designated. The human herpesviruses are highly host adapted and possess the capacity for latency, allowing them to survive in the host for life, effectively hidden from the immune system. This ability of human herpesviruses to modulate the...

Misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain are the hallmark sign of Parkinson's disease.