Scientists discovered strikingly high levels of a common virus in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, a finding that points to a potential cause for the neurological disorder. Researchers ...

The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio. University of Illinois ...

CHICAGO — A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized ...

Features & opinion Why ‘harmless’ germs can be deadly for some In some people, rare genetic mutations cause ‘inborn errors of immunity’ (IEIs). These errors disrupt the function of their immune cells, ...