News Headline

Retroviruses are re-writing the koala genome and causing cancer

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-02-26

The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a virus which, like other retroviruses such as HIV, inserts itself into the DNA of an infected cell. At some point in the past 50,000 years, KoRV has infected the egg or sperm cells of koalas, leading to offspring that carry the retrovirus in every cell in their body.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-02-retroviruses-re-writing-koala-genome-cancer.html