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, ...

Ancient viral infections have left endogenous retroviruses in our DNA, impacting genomic evolution and playing roles in ...

To achieve this, Gag binds to a region of the genomic RNA that, depending on the retrovirus, is about 100 to 300 nucleotides long and contains encapsidation signals. This region is therefore ...