In some other HHVs, bacteria artifical chromosomes and Escherichia coli mutagenesis system have served as powerful tools to analyze virus DNA structure and gene functions. Unfortunately, these tools ...

Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) research has evolved substantially over recent decades, elucidating key aspects of viral behaviour, host integration and clinical impact. HHV-6 comprises two distinct ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of the human genome since the Iron Age. Human herpesvirus 6 is nearly universal ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

An international study of integrated HHV-6 has discovered that a small number of human ancestors, one from about 24,000 years ago, have been responsible for transmitting ancient strains of the virus ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by a ...

Director, Molecular Microbiology Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology and Immunoserology Laboratories Nationwide Children's Hospital Associate Professor - Clinical, College of Medicine, The Ohio ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding itself in our DNA. New work with Iron Age human remains has now traced Human ...