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, ...

Existing drugs, known as MAP-kinase inhibitors, likely work, in part, by disabling the endogenous retrovirus switch, the study suggests. The authors note that just this one family of retrovirus ...

“The new data presented in the paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the potential role of endogenous retroviruses in neurological disease.” “It’s a very, very important ...

Multiple endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in human DNA may be programmed to activate as cancer therapy. A recent study, led by scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, expanded on a previously ...

A retrovirus is an infectious agent belonging to the RNA virus family Retroviridae. These viruses encode a reverse transcriptase enzyme that converts the RNA genome into DNA during the retroviral ...