Field guide to the Epstein-Barr virus charts viral paths toward cancer

Posted August 23rd, 2012 by PCC STEM & filed under Health Sciences.

Researchers have published the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome, providing the best look yet at how EBV interacts with human genes and proteins. EBV, which is thought to be responsible for one percent of all human cancers -- including B cell lymphomas, gastric carcinomas, and nasopharyngeal carcinomas -- establishes a latent infection in nearly 100 percent of infected adult humans.

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