The possibility that retroviruses play a role in multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been considered; accumulating findings suggest this to be most likely in the form of human endogenous retroviruses ...

By FHSU University CommunicationsFort Hays State University’s next Science Café will be held on Monday, April 29.This month’s ...

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?

To conceptualize this transformation, let's examine the replication of retroviruses, the family of viruses to which HIV belongs. This process very closely mirrors the movement of an important ...

Retroviruses such as the HIV virus carry out this genetic hacking by reversing the sequence of the gene readout. They inject their RNA into the cells they infect, which serves as the code to make ...

It has been more than 40 years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and scientists still don't fully understand how ...

Adenoviruses (AdV), Adeno-associated viruses (AAV), Retroviruses, Lentiviruses (LV), and Bacteriophages are the most commonly used viral vectors due to their ability to deliver therapeutic genes ...

Additionally, scientists inactivated porcine endogenous retroviruses in the pig donor to eliminate any risk of infection in ...

Grandgenett’s work focuses on viral integrase, the part of retroviruses like HIV that is responsible for insertion of the viral DNA into human cell DNA. In fact, he discovered integrase in 1978, ...

a multi-year process that removed harmful pig genes from the organ and inactivated porcine retroviruses that could potentially cause infection. They also added human genes into the kidney to ...

In what has been a remarkable step forward in the treatment of HIV, doctors have found that multiple children living with HIV ...

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 ...