What about the good vs. bad dichotomy that we have come to hold - TopicsExpress



          

What about the good vs. bad dichotomy that we have come to hold dear where host vs. retroviral DNA are concerned? Once retroviruses have become part of the host germline, they are subject to selection for beneficial effects just like any other part of the genome, and their ability to activate an innate immune response seems to have been utilized to the benefit of the host, said Dr. Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:44:00 +0000

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