Monday, October 9, 2017

Researchers detect 100-million-year-old virus in pregnant women's blood

Your genome contains ancient viruses. It's a startling thought, and researchers detected a 100-million-year-old virus - that would have infected our ancestors when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - in the blood of pregnant women. This virus is a human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) - and although it doesn't act like a virus any longer, having been subsumed in the human genome, scientists are still trying to figure out how they might impact us. Eight percent of the human genome is made up of ancient...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/researchers-detect-100-million-year-old-virus-in-pregnant-womens-blood
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