Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

For the first time, scientists have captured how new antiviral drugs halt the herpes virus in real time as it tries to ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works. The discovery sheds light on an important tool for fighting drug-resistant ...

Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov independently realized that there was a problem with how our DNA gets copied. A quirk of linear DNA replication dictated that telomeres ...

The herpes simplex virus (HSV) causes cold sores and genital lesions and with the exception of acyclovir (an inhibitor of the viral DNA polymerase), there are currently no drug treatments available.

Gilead Sciences Inc. has synthesized indoline compounds acting as DNA helicase-primase complex (human herpes simplex virus) and viral replication inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of ...