Reason Why Cold Sores Come Back

...discovered part of the reason why cold sores, caused by a herpes virus, come back again and again.

The new study, published online last month in Nature, points to a small RNA molecule, called..

...Our study helps show how HSV-1 can maintain a latent infection for the lifetime of an infected individual...

...Latent HSV-1 infections form in neuronal cells of the peripheral nervous system. When a latent infection is reactivated..

Reason Why Cold Sores Come Back