STING1 and viral infectious disease: The cGAS-STING signaling pathway is not only an evolutionarily conserved defence mechanism against bacterial and viral infections but it also alerts from genotoxic and mitochondrial stresses which evoke a leakage of dsDNA into the cytoplasm (Hopfner and Hornung 2020; Newman and Shadel 2023; Patel et al. 2023).