Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.
Discovered in 1964 by Anthony Epstein, Yvonne Barr, and Bert Achong, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has intrigued tumor virologists due to its unique behavior. Typically, EBV establishes a lifelong, ...