‘How ancient viruses may help kill cancers’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘How ancient viruses may help kill cancers’ | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By PTI |London |Updated: September 23, 2019 6:12:13 pm

‘How ancient viruses may help kill cancers’

The study, published in the journal Genome Research, looked at "endogenous retroviruses," fragments of DNA in the human genome that were left behind by viruses that infected our ancestors.

Genes are pieces of DNA that contain instructions to produce proteins, which perform important functions in the cell or the body. (Source: File Photo)

DNA “echoes” of viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago may help our immune system to identify and kill cancer cells, according to a study.