New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

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

Pre-clinical studies indicate that efficient retrovirus-mediated gene transfer ... of either full-length or truncated MDR-1 integrated DNA. We detected both truncated and full-length versions ...

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 ...

Retroviruses are a sub-category of oncoviruses that include the lentiviruses. Retroviruses are negative single-stranded RNA viruses in which tRNA serves as a primer for the mRNA synthesis. The mRNA is ...

"Out of all the species on the planet, this is the only one where we can see a genetic response to a retrovirus in real time, rather than looking at responses to things that got into the genome ...

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.

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?

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, ...

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 ...

These ancient hitchhikers, known as endogenous retroviruses, were long considered inert or 'junk' DNA, defanged of any ...

Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are remnants of ancient viral infections that have become integrated into the human ...