Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

Retroviruses are negative single-stranded RNA viruses in which tRNA serves as a primer for the mRNA synthesis. The mRNA is then reverse transcribed into DNA, which is then integrated into the ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published.

Human endogenous retroviruses that colonized vertebrate DNA millions of years ago have long been dismissed as junk DNA, but researchers now know that they may play important roles in cancer, ...

Dana-Farber investigators found that normally defunct viral genes that lie dormant in the human genome can be activated in ...

The genetic switch effectively reduces the impact of the retrovirus, strengthening the immune system of the beloved but endangered marsupial, said Keith Chappell, a virologist at the University of ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together?

Linear genome organization maps from selected retroviruses. Full genome sequence length is represented in nucleotides by horizontal bars above each gene set. Horizontal arrows pointing towards the ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

The complex retroviruses, such as HIV ... thereby influencing the type and amount of transcribed RNA. The whole viral genome is transcribed and the resulting mRNA is polyadenylated by signals ...