New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a better understanding of the evolution of the animal's genome. KoRV-A is ...

Retroviruses are a sub-category of oncoviruses that include the lentiviruses. Retroviruses are negative single-stranded RNA viruses in which tRNA serves as a primer for the mRNA synthesis. The mRNA is ...

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published.

Humanity's war against the HIV has been a constantly shifting battle, thanks to the wily nature of the virus. But humans, being quite wily themselves, have persevered in the search for a cure ...

Koalas are susceptible to cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia along with chlamydia infections due to koala retrovirus, a pathogen that began inserting itself into the koala genome about 40,000 years ...

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?

Overall changes in the host cellular proteome upon retroviral infection intensify from the initial entry of the virus to the incorporation of viral DNA into the host genome, and finally to the ...

Pre-clinical studies indicate that efficient retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells can be achieved by co-localizing retroviral particles and target ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus threatening their species. Researchers from The University of Queensland and ...