According to the WHO, vaccination saves 2-3 million lives a year (1). It is a form of active immunisation; it means that vaccine is injected into your body to activate and boost your immune response. (Note: passive immunisation is the administration of antibodies -...
#articleofthemonth The article published in 2021 by the group of Professor Yasmine Belkaid (1) got me excited! So, I will introduce it to you as #articleofthemonth. Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which are included in mammalian and human DNA, have many more...
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are short DNA sequences within our genome. Originally, these sequences were the genetic information of viruses that repeatedly infected our cells (1). Over several million years, thousands to hundreds of thousands of HERV...
