People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between late 2011 and 2013, three men in succession — aged 63, 62 and 72 years — from the state of Saxony-Anhalt ...

People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses ...

Human DNA carries the artifact of an infection so ancient that it predates humanity itself. The brain-attacking disease, known as bornavirus, infected proto-hominids forty million years ago. It may ...

Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) is a neurologic disease of horses and sheep that causes rare human infections. The outcome in those who develop disease almost always results in inflammation in the ...

Humans carry in their genome the relics of an animal virus that infected their ancestors at least 40 million years ago, according to research published Wednesday by the British science journal Nature.

DAVISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan --A curious dermatologist and a dead parrot have helped unlock the secrets of a virus that has eluded animal researchers for decades. Flint Township dermatologist Dr. Scott ...

Bornaviruses cause a lethal form of encephalitis, called Borna disease, among horses and sheep. To date there have been only a few reported cases in Austria. Recently, however, four horses were ...

Un grupo de científicos bajo la dirección de Keizo Tomonaga, de la Universidad de Osaka, han descubierto que los seres humanos llevamos en nuestro genoma fragmentos de un antiguo virus que infectó a ...

In 1983, reports of antibodies in subjects with major depressive disorder (MDD) to an as-yet uncharacterized infectious agent associated with meningoencephalitis in horses and sheep led to molecular ...