There is no approved medicine to treat polyomaviruses, which afflict those with weakened immune systems, but scientists have found that a chemical compound called Retro-2 is able to significantly ...

A new method to screen tumor samples for the presence of any human polyomavirus has been created by a team of researchers. Their study found no evidence for the involvement of human polyomaviruses in ...

The presence of polyomaviruses and herpesviruses in adrenal tumors and their role in adrenal tumorigenesis has never been investigated, even though the adrenal gland seems to be a preferential site of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every cell in our body runs like a tiny factory that makes specialized products, using the carefully guarded instructions kept in the CEO's office. But every once in a while, an ...

Polyomaviruses typically infect a single species and limited types of tissue. Examples include the human BK and JC viruses and simian virus 40 (SV40). These three viruses are approximately 70 percent ...

Every cell in our body runs like a tiny factory that makes specialized products, using the carefully guarded instructions kept in the CEO's office. But every once in a while, an invader tries to get ...

A team of scientists reports that a small molecule compound showed significant success in controlling the infectivity and spread of three polyomaviruses in human cell cultures. To date there has been ...