ATLANTA — The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) is looking into whether polio vaccines contaminated with the simian virus SV40 — thought to inactivate p53 and Rb — and given 40 years ago have caused a ...

The polio vaccine prevents an infection that can lead to paralysis or death. Learn who should get it and when, plus the risks of declining vaccination rates.

Both the SV40 virus (a virus found in monkeys and humans) and the papillomavirus (which may cause genital warts and is associated with cervical cancer) use caveolae-mediated endocytosis to infect ...

Raphaele and Michael Horwin have launched the SV40 Cancer Foundation in memory of their son Alexander Horwin who died in 1999 from an SV40 positive brain tumor. Raphaele and Michael Horwin have ...

What will be the significance of this month’s 50th anniversary meeting at the famed Pacific Grove conference centre in ...

We knew that simian virus 40 (SV40) is unusual in that it enters host cells through caveolae and ends up in the endoplasmic reticulum. We now learn that the infectious route of SV40 is even more ...