Psst! Don't panic, but you've got sleeper...  ...Scientists have identified 100,000 pieces of retrovirus DNA in our genes, making up eight per...  ...es belonged to a family of endogenous retroviruses called HERV-K, but they were not quite like...

If you love to kiss your dog, then you may be gett...  ...e than just dog drool ... you may be getting some retroviruses , too!Intriguingly, the scientists discovered a no...  ...rial in dogs that is highly similar to endogenous retroviruses seen in humans. They belong to a type of virus kn...  ...e found in mam...

Is schizophrenia caused by genetics or environment...  ...tion. It may not have made the lemur ill, but the retrovirus spread into the animal’s testes (or perhaps its...  ...e sperm and eggs. When the lemur reproduced, that retrovirus rode into the next generation aboard the lucky sp...  ...years, there have b...