In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers report that most types of retroviruses have distinct, non-identical virus structures.

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game ...

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have for the first time uncovered the detailed structure of the shell that surrounds the genetic material of ...

A retrovirus is a virus that uses its own RNA to replicate inside healthy cells. Learn what the causes and symptoms of retroviruses are along with the treatment options available.

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a better understanding of the evolution of the animal's genome.

A retrovirus is a type of virus that replicates differently than traditional viruses do. We'll go over how their replication process differs, which retroviruses affect humans, and how retrorviral ...

For a retrovirus such as HIV to be infectious, a properly formed capsid is needed; however, unusually among viruses, retrovirus capsids are highly variable in structure. According to the fullerene ...

A number of studies have examined the structure of the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), which affects birds and provides a good model for other retroviruses, but none have been able to provide a high ...

This ancient retrovirus is a kind of living fossil, and the discovery of an intact copy of it within the human genome poses questions as to how it has survived, and suggests others from the ...

Figure 4: Parallels between structure, assembly and function of retrovirus capsids, dsRNA-virus capsids and (+)RNA-virus RNA-replication complexes.

Overall, the study revealed that retrovirus activation causes the copy number variants in BTBR mice to increase, leading to the differences in behavior and brain structure seen in BTBR/J and BTBR ...

Over time, many endogenous retrovirus (ERV) sequences have integrated into the human genome, and now play important roles in normal gene regulation.