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 ...

Researchers report in the journal Cell that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin—and, by extension, our large, complex ...

The complex retroviruses, such as HIV, encode additional trans-regulating factors or contain cis-regulating elements, thereby influencing the type and amount of transcribed RNA. The whole viral ...

An oncogene is a gene that will transform a cell in culture. Oncogenes were initially identified in cancer-causing retroviruses. Genes involved in the regulation of cell division, movement and ...

Many TRIM proteins are responsive to interferon (IFN), with some functioning as downstream effectors of IFN in innate immune responses to retroviruses and other viruses. Members with anti-HIV ...

The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman. Kennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in ...

The toolmaking observation was the most epochal of the three, causing a furor within anthropological circles because “man the toolmaker” held sway as an almost canonical definition of our species.