People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between late 2011 and 2013, three men in succession — aged 63, 62 and 72 years — from the state of Saxony-Anhalt ...

Between 2011 and 2013, three breeders of variegated squirrels (Sciurus variegatoides) had encephalitis with similar clinical signs and died 2 to 4 months after onset of the clinical symptoms. With the ...

A survey of mammalian genomes has unexpectedly unearthed DNA derived from bornaviruses, leading to speculation about the role of these viruses in causing mutations with evolutionary and medical ...

People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses ...

Human DNA carries the artifact of an infection so ancient that it predates humanity itself. The brain-attacking disease, known as bornavirus, infected proto-hominids forty million years ago. It may ...

DAVISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan --A curious dermatologist and a dead parrot have helped unlock the secrets of a virus that has eluded animal researchers for decades. Flint Township dermatologist Dr. Scott ...

About eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to a new study. The research shows that the genomes of humans and other mammals contain DNA ...

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Some 8% of the human genome comes from viruses that have infected us throughout evolution; contributions from retroviruses have long been known to pepper our genome. Now, researchers in Japan report ...

Scientists have known for decades that the genomes of animals can sometimes harbor DNA from the viruses that have infected them. When I first learned of this fact some years ago, it blew my mind. The ...