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Endogenous Retroviruses Are the Last Scars of Viral Infections
Long regarded as junk DNA or genomic dark matter, endogenous retro viruses have turned out to represent important components of the anti-viral immune response. They not only regulate cellular immune activation, but may even directly target invading viral pathogens. Scientists recently took human cells incubated in petri dishes and slightly mutated the DNA of one of our endogenous retro viruses to see if it would start producing viruses again. Sure enough, it worked. An extinct virus was revived from a DNA sequence found in our very own human genome. Endogenous retro viruses really are the remaining scars of ancient virus infections.
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