Are the ‘viral’ agents of MS, ALS and schizophrenia buried in our genome?
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An estimated 8% of our DNA comes from viruses. Image: Shutterstock. Viruses hid themselves in your ancestors’ DNA. Now they’r…
An estimated 8% of our DNA comes from viruses. Image: Shutterstock. Viruses hid themselves in your ancestors’ DNA. Now they’r…
HERVs are evolutionary acquired retroviruses (RNA viruses able to integrate into host DNA via reverse transcription from RNA to…
Retroviruses may be a missing causal link in diseases like ALS, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia.
What if the missing ‘environmental’ factor in some of our deadliest neurological diseases were really written in our genome?