Leukemia cells containing Epstein-Barr Virus CDC, PAUL M. FEORINO When Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes cancer, it usually does so by hijacking two cellular mechanisms. First, the virus deregulates MYC ...

but EBV is cleverer than most viruses. Although the immune system controls the infection, it is unable to completely eradicate the virus as it hides inside a type of immune cell called a B cell ...

Therefore, although T cells recognize EBV-infected B cells, they fail to eliminate them ... ways to evade the immune response: Through the virus’s nucleoprotein and through the interaction ...

EBV is so prevalent that an estimated 90 percent of individuals will be infected by the time they are 20. Once inside the ...

is also excited by the possibilities these new insights into EBV’s role raise for developing new treatments. “The virus is smart,” he says. “It hides in B-cells, so targeting it using a ...

While its exact causes remain elusive, mounting evidence suggests that viral infections, particularly Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), may ... by triggering inflammatory cell death in macrophages.

A Michigan college student was diagnosed with three incurable diseases after catching a common 'kissing virus.' Last year, at age 19, Devyn Carr was diagnosed with mononucleosis, a viral illness ...

Two researchers win the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their discoveries related to multiple sclerosis disease ...

After infection, the virus becomes latent in the body ... and nonhuman primates that inhibited EBV entry into both B cells and epithelial cells, and that dual mode of action is key to ...