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, ...

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 ...

Researchers uncover evidence that a retrovirus embedded within the human genome may play a role in the pathology ... contribution to our understanding of the potential role of endogenous retroviruses ...

Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs ... such as HERV-W, HERV-K, and HERV-H. The integration of HERVs into the human genome ...

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 ...