Tag: retrovirus

  • Case Study – The Placenta, MS, and a Viral Past

    Case Study – The Placenta, MS, and a Viral Past

    What if we told your students that a gene critical to human pregnancy came from a virus? And what if that same gene, when turned on in the wrong place, might play a role in multiple sclerosis? This is the real and fascinating story behind Syncytin-1, a protein that reveals just how tangled the relationship…