New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Koalas infected with the retrovirus are at a higher risk of chlamydia, which has devastated populations in Queensland and New South Wales. The virus has also been linked to lymphomas that have caused ...

Current research suggests that viral hitchhikers in human DNA may play roles in cancer, inflammation, and neurodegenerative disorders. The mechanisms that underpin these connections between human ...

Studies the envelope proteins of viruses, including retroviruses and the Ebola virus. These proteins are responsible for binding and fusing the virus to target cell membranes. Also looking at ways to ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

An unusually large proportion of patients entering this study had advanced HIV-disease: 50% had viral loads > 100,000 copies/mL, and 18% had CD4 counts <50 cells/mm 3. In a 48-week intent-to-treat ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...