An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and resulting deaths from cancer in multi-generational pedigrees of over 100 ...

You're walking around right now carrying the genetic fingerprints of infections that happened millions of years ago. Deep inside your cells, woven into the very fabric of your DNA, sit sequences that ...

SEATTLE — The genetic vulnerability to psoriasis and related autoimmune diseases may be traceable to evolutionary pressure to resist ancient infections by retroviruses. The theory is that variations ...

In 2020, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was the first scientific conference to move from in-person to virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the fifth anniversary ...

Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection has the following research output in the current window (1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...

Vertebrate genomes are repositories for retrovirus code that was deposited into germ line as inherited endogenous retroviruses during evolution. Researchers now provide new findings about retroviral ...

Kari K Nissen; Magdalena J Laska; Bettina Hansen; Thorkild Terkelsen; Palle Villesen; Shervin Bahrami; Thor Petersen; Finn S Pedersen; Bjørn A Nexø At present, there is no direct evidence for the ...

An international team of scientists analysed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...

Exploring caregiver dependence and social determinants of health reveals critical barriers to HIV care for children, impacting treatment adherence and access, explains Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH.

Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. An international team of scientists analysed the ongoing colonization by ...