News tagged with retroviruses
War of the viruses: Could ancient virus genes help fight modern AIDS?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists have yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Scientists link chronic fatigue ailment to retrovirus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a potential retroviral link to chronic fatigue syndrome, known as CFS, a debilitating disease that affects millions of people in the United States. Researchers from the Whittemore ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Researcher studies monkeys in Africa to better understand virus evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite the importance of AIDS in human health, scientists still know very little about the diversity and ecology of AIDS-like viruses in nature.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 07, 2009 |
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HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago - about 85 million years earlier than ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Genomic fossils in lemurs shed light on origin and evolution of HIV and other primate lentiviruses
A retrovirus related to HIV became stably integrated into the genome of several lemurs around 4.2 million years ago, according to research led by Dr. Cédric Feschotte at the University of Texas, Arlington. Published ...
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Parasites in the genome -- A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible ...
Biology /
Jan 19, 2009 |
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