TB Throwback: Dr. Avindra Nath and HERV-based Diseases

About this episode

Dr. Avindra Nath discusses the impact of human endogenous retroviruses on human diseases.

In today's throwback to 2022, Dr. Avindra Nath of the NIH reviews research efforts in proteins expressed from human endogenous retroviruses. It is a fascinating discussion of how genome relics may be contributing to insidious human disease.

People in this episode

Guest: Dr Avindra Nath

Topics covered

• human endogenous retroviruses
• disease
• genome relics

Keywords

• NIH
• proteins
• research

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