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HERV vs HIV
Posted by ERV on May 13, 2011 CTL-based vaccines and HIV-1. Ive written about them quite a few times here on ERV. Quick recap– All of your cells fly ‘flags’ that show circulating cytotoxic T-cells what proteins they are making. Normally, a virus-infected cell will put up virus/pirate ‘flags’, the T-cell will ‘see’ something is wrong, and convince the infected cell to…
ERVs and ALS
Posted by ERV on March 8, 2011 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, aka Lou Gherigs disease. Pretty much sounds like hell, to me. Your mind is fine, while your body is collapsing around you– slowly but surely paralyzing you, taking away your ability to eat and breathe, while your mind is fine and dandy so you are acutely aware of what is happening to…
ERV Starship
Posted by ERV on November 19, 2010 I guess Im going to have to change the name of ‘ERV’. Before I was just concerned. Now, ERVs are officially not so special at all. Viruses, all kinds of viruses, are all over the place in genomes– from insects to humans. Endogenous Viral Elements in Animal Genomes Carl Zimmers take: Your inner viruses: the…
ERV at the Texas Freethought Convention!
Posted by ERV on November 11, 2010 Even though the real ERV is a) hiding in an undisclosed location and b) blinded by a week long migraine from this stress, you can still enjoy me via video taken at the Texas Freethought Convention! First of all, that was an absolutely fantastic introduction. I loved it! I felt like a total ass for…
Extinct retroviruses, ERVs, Frankenstein viruses, and chance
Posted by ERV on November 5, 2010 The endogenous retroviruses in your genome are dead. Dead. Junk. They no longer code for functional, infectious viruses. Those viruses are also extinct. They were floating around thousands, millions of years ago, infecting stuff, and now they are hanging out in your genome instead (100% of humans are infected, *wink*). ERVs are viruses that we…
REPOST: Frankenstein Viruses
Posted by ERV on October 27, 2010 This is a repost from the old ERV. A retrotransposed ERV Its Halloween time, and we just got a BRAND NEW FRANKENSTEIN ERV! To prime you all for that post, heres a repost on an OLD FRANKENSTEIN ERV! Remember, ERVs are junk. These are not zombie viruses. Scientists are not taking totally functional but silenced…
Even MOAR Endogenous Non-Retroviruses
Posted by ERV on October 18, 2010 Now COMMON. COMMON. What is this nonsense? COMMON. … How am I supposed to have a blog titled ‘ERV’, crowing on about how awesome and special endogenous retroviruses are, when scientists keep friggen unearthing endogenous NON-retroviruses. COMMON!! First there were Borna disease viruses. Then there were filoviruses. Then there were hepadnaviruses. And NOW, NOW there…
Endogenous non-retroviral retroviruses: Hepadnaviruses in the bird genome
Posted by ERV on September 29, 2010 Hepatitis B is my favorite non-retrovirus. Why? Because its a retrovirus Heres another reason for me to love it– Its viral family, Hepadnaviridae, inserted themselves into bird genomes 19 million years ago. Genomic Fossils Calibrate the Long-Term Evolution of Hepadnaviruses *happy-prospector-dance* Okay, this is like, the billionth time this has happened in the past few…
The ERV thats killing koalas: KoRV
Posted by ERV on September 15, 2010 Creationists cant deal with ERVs. They have no answer to the problems ERVs pose to Creationism. They have no alternative explanation for the weight ERVs lend to evilution. However, this doesnt stop Creationists from bluffing/lying to save face in front of the True Believers. One of the more baffling responses Ive gotten to ERVs is…
Theres a glitch in The Matrix… they changed something…
Posted by ERV on July 29, 2010 Ummmmmmm… Hmmm… Filoviruses are ancient and integrated into mammalian genomes Hmmmmmm… Unexpected Inheritance: Multiple Integrations of Ancient Bornavirus and Ebolavirus/Marburgvirus Sequences in Vertebrate Genomes– This first comprehensive study of its kind demonstrates that the sources of genetic inheritance in vertebrate genomes are considerably more diverse than previously appreciated. No… no… PLOS received this paper first,…