Dr. Arvinda Nath: Endogenous Retroviruses and Disease
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The Role of the Retrovile Sequences in Near Legendary Diseases
We've talked a lot about carte cel therapies on the podcast over the years. This seems like another really excellent application, because those would be antigens that would be expressed strictly in those rapidly proliferating cell types. So my passion really is to try and understand the rule of the retrovarses, or retrovaragenes in near legenerate of diseases. I think if one were to study them, you have a whole host of new therapeutic targets, and that would open up. And so i really think it would be very wise for s to invest resources into understanding these vial genes in the context of nearo degenerate diseases and manipulate them.
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