Highlights and Stories from Cornell Virology Laboratories and Research.

The Feschotte lab has been featured in recent stories on the roles of endogenous viruses in the human genome: Can Viruses in the Human Genome Cause Disease?
 A related blog story reviews the endogenous retroviral sequence composition of the human genome.

Heather Callaway in the Parrish lab examined the properties of parvovirus sequences endogenized in different rodent genomes, and showed that those represent classical parvovirus forms. She was able to express one capsid protein in a form that assembled, and that was analyzed by cryoEM.