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

Researchers have found that certain childhood viral infections, including the BK virus, may damage bladder DNA and increase ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A VIRUS that most people pick up in childhood triggered deadly bladder cancer in dad-of-two Tim Tavender. The 51-year-old got ...

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 ...