Cancer-causing virus masters cell's replication, immortality

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 07:51 in Health & Medicine

Researchers detail how the Epstein-Barr virus manages to persist quietly inside the immune system's B cells in as many as 90 percent of adults. Should something go awry however, the virus can cause mononucleosis or cancers of the lymph.

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