Sentences with phrase «retrovirus called»

About 45 million to 60 million years ago, a retrovirus called MER41 invaded the genome of a primate ancestor of humans.

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Removing the viruses — called porcine endogenous retroviruses, or PERVs — creates piglets that can't pass the viruses on to transplant recipients, geneticist Luhan Yang and colleagues report online August 10 in Science.

Her next goal is to create what she calls «Pig 2.0,» which will be not only free of the harmful retroviruses but also incorporate additional genetic tweaks to get around immune rejection.

Interested in the history of lentiviruses — the group of retroviruses to which HIV and its simian (monkey) relatives, the SIVs belong — Welkin Johnson, from Boston College, USA, and colleagues focused on an antiviral gene called TRIM5.

Pig cells contain multiple copies of embedded viruses called porcine endogenous retroviruses, or PERVs.

Today, our genomes are riddled with these interlopers, called retroviruses and transposable elements, but many now just sit there, unable to generate additional copies of themselves.

The virus, called human endogenous retrovirus W (HERV - W), codes for a protein that, when activated, sets off an inflammatory cascade in the brain that leads to symptoms.

The simian foamy virus — so - called because of its foamy appearance under a microscope — is one of three known retroviruses in nonhuman primates.

Some of the first genes to start expressing themselves again are former viruses turned into transposable elements known as human endogenous retroviruses, particularly one called HERVK, Wysocka and colleagues found.

Retrotransposons — many of which were once RNA viruses called retroviruses — are the copy - and - pasters.

He extracted fluids from the spinal columns of MS patients and tested for an enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, that is carried by all retroviruses.

Our DNA carries dozens of copies of Perron's virus, now called human endogenous retrovirus W, or HERV - W, at specific addresses on chromosomes 6 and 7.

Called human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs), the vast majority of these ancient viruses are no longer functional.

They unearthed genomic fossils for so - called endogenous retroviruses in highly diverse hosts, such as ray - finned fish and amphibians that had no previous link to retroviruses.

Uppsala researchers Patric Jern, Alexander Hayward, Göran Sperber, and Jonas Blomberg used the computer program RetroTector and detailed sequence comparisons in so - called phylogenetic studies to map the retrovirus part of the pig genome.

Every pork cell contains a virus called Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus.

A retrovirus spreads by inserting something called an enzyme into healthy cells.

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), sometimes called feline AIDS, is a retrovirus that infects cats.