“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 ...

Dana-Farber investigators found that normally defunct viral genes that lie dormant in the human genome can be activated in the most common form of kidney cancer (clear cell renal cell carcinoma) and ...

As will become apparent in the following, we do not see the endogenous retroviruses as alternatives to the immune-mediated damage, but as triggers of it. A potential problem in the implication of ...

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 ...