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"The sequencing of the human genome revealed that nearly one-half of the genome is composed of repeated or retrotransposable elements. Among them, human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) repr… Read More

Delapan persen dari DNA manusia berasal dari virus. Kini, ilmuwan menemukan lebih banyak buktinya.Riset terbaru yang dilakukan oleh ilmuwan dari Tufts University dan University of Michigan m… Read More

Viruses challenge our definition of life. Neither dead nor alive, they are simply functional or not. Viruses do not possess the machinery to replicate themselves. Yet you can even argue that… Read More

The human retrovirus, identified as XMRV is found in more than 95% of the blood samples of patients in a study group In Boiling Springs Lake, a strange retrovirus was discovered in 2013, whi… Read More

Eight percent of your DNA is alien, in that it’s made up of non-human, viral fragments. In fact, viral fragments are often hiding within the genome of anything on Earth that has a jaw… Read More

Eight percent of your DNA is alien, in that it’s made up of non-human, viral fragments. In fact, viral fragments are often hiding within the genome of anything on Earth that has a ja… Read More

What if the missing ‘environmental’ factor in some of our deadliest neurological diseases were really written in our genome?Writing in Frontiers in Genetics, researchers from the… Read More

Unifying principles The actual immunoregulatory cpa networks at any given time are the results of a complicated and also complicated good repeated encounters together with the microbe atmosp… Read More

The story of our rise, the all-too-familiar emergence of Homo sapiens, comes with a plot-twist that many are not familiar with. We owe our survival to viruses, because if not for them, we ma… Read More

He Who Has No Name writes: In a synopsis posted Monday, John Hewitt at Phys.org points out some fairly unsettling implications of an ugly trick by Covid-19 (more formally, SARS-CoV-2) -- it… Read More

The emergence of COVID-19 has presented numerous clinical challenges, including the perplexing Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), which shares similarities with Kawasaki… Read More