The possibility that retroviruses play a role in multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been considered; accumulating findings suggest this to be most likely in the form of human endogenous retroviruses ...

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, ...

“The new data presented in the paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the potential role of endogenous retroviruses in neurological disease.” “It’s a very, very important ...

Such endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) often contain binding sites for transcription factors—that is, proteins that read and activate genes. Although these sequences are normally inactive ...