Biotech firms are engineering smarter, safer gene delivery systems to enhance the safety and efficacy of genetic medicines.

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, ...

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations ... suppressing the immune system and making the animals ...

A novel approach to tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy yielded higher response rates among patients with metastatic ...

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, ...

With the realization that the gross genetic abnormalities that activated MYC in cancer universally led to deregulated expression of the intact coding region, a series of new questions arose.

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 ...

In late 2018, Atma moved to the US for a computational postdoc position in the Chuong lab, where she currently investigates the role of endogenous retroviruses and other transposable elements in gene ...