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

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 ...

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published.

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 ...

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

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

We detected neither viral envelope nor replication-competent retroviruses in transduced CD34 + cells before infusion or in any samples obtained after transplantation. We have used both enzyme ...

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 ...