Can viruses steal our genetic signals to make human-virus genes?

The CVR Presents Research Goes Viral

Can viruses steal our genetic signals to generate human-virus genes? Can these proteins alter the course of viral infection? In this episode of the review recorded via zoom we will answer these questions with Dr Léa Meyer a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Virus Research who gives us a snapshot of the results and implications of her recent publication (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.035) and a wonderful story about scientists being nice to each other. You can find our previous content on at cvrblog.myportfolio.com, email us at [email protected] or tweet us @CVRblog. Featuring: Dr Léa Meyer and Dr Elena Sugrue. Editing: Elena Sugrue. Music: Something Elated - Broke for Free freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free