- New research shows that the koala is developing genomic immunity to koala retrovirus, a disease that makes the animal susceptible to chlamydia, leukemia, and lymphoma. This immunity is something scientists knew about in theory but had never observed in-progress. https://www.inverse.com/article/59977-koala-retrovirus-is-forcing-it-to-evolve 31 comments science
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- Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/ancient-viruses-dna-genome.html 69 comments
- What a koala virus tells us about the human genome https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/10/what-a-koala-virus-tells-us-about-the-human-genome-and-how-it-defends-itself-against-viral-invasions/ 0 comments
- A Virus in Koala DNA Shows Evolution in Action - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/science/koala-retrovirus-evolution.html 0 comments
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