Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is an authentic, newly recognized human retrovirus first identified in prostate cancer tissues from men with a deficiency in the innate immunity ...

A retrovirus called HERV-H, which inserted itself into the human genome millions of years ago, may play an important role in pluripotent stem cells. The discovery, which may help explain how these ...

Retroviruses have been around longer than humanity itself. In fact, the best-known family member, HIV, is a relative youngster, with its first known human infections occurring sometime in the mid-20th ...

The median length of survival after diagnosis of glioblastoma is 14 months, but some of these brain tumors are more aggressive and resistant to treatment than others, and a new study from Sylvester ...

The human genome is littered with scraps of millennia-old retroviruses, which hopped in, never hopped back out, and now pass from parents to children. Some of those retroviruses may wake up and ...

The long, fruitless search for the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome has taken a curious turn. Scientists report online October 8 in Science that an obscure retrovirus shows up in two-thirds of people ...

This week, an additional two groups are reporting they were unable to find any evidence of XMRV, a retrovirus, in various groups of people, including those diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. The ...

Retrovirus found in CFS patients could lead to therapies; some reserve judgment. Oct. 30, 2009— -- In 1982, Cynthia Toussaint, a 21-year-old North Hollywood, Calif., ballerina and actress, had a ...

New research finds flaws in a 2009 study that had provided hope and one scientist says CFS patients should stop taking antiretroviral drugs based on those findings People who suffer from chronic ...

An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and resulting deaths from cancer in multi-generational pedigrees of over 100 ...