SEATTLE — The genetic vulnerability to psoriasis and related autoimmune diseases may be traceable to evolutionary pressure to resist ancient infections by retroviruses. The theory is that variations ...

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and Masonic Cancer Center is providing important new insights into the structure of a human virus that causes blood cancer. In their ...

Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection has the following research output in the current window (1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...

Exploring caregiver dependence and social determinants of health reveals critical barriers to HIV care for children, impacting treatment adherence and access, explains Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH.

The study of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA) and its causative agent, Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV), continues to be a dynamic and interdisciplinary field. OPA is a contagious lung cancer ...

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

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and Masonic Cancer Center is providing important new insights into the structure of ...

At the 2025 meeting of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. On the first full day of the conference, reports from the ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Generic Virology, researchers traced koala retrovirus (KoRV) load alongside Chlamydia pecorum infection and fecal glucocorticoid metabolites to clarify ...

In 2012, University of Melbourne immunologist Damian Purcell read a study that, he said, “blew my socks off.” Published by a physician in a remote town in Australia’s red center called Alice ...