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 ...

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.

Researchers uncover evidence that a retrovirus embedded within the human genome may play a role in the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where ...

Studies comparing RetroMyelin in fish, amphibians, and mammals indicate that genome-invasion events and retroviral infection happened independently in each of these animal groups. Retroviruses ...

"If we didn't have retroviruses sticking their sequences into the vertebrate genome, then myelination wouldn't have happened, ...

Expertise includes nucleic acid chemistry, nucleic acid biotechnology, DNA-based diagnostics and ... In 1998, his team solved the structure of a receptor that is used by the common cold virus to enter ...