Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to bab...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 09/01/2008 - 23:00

(University of Rochester Medical Center) New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center shows that some parents pass on the human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) to their children because it is integrated into their chromosomes.

This is the first time a virus has been shown to become part of the human DNA and then get passed to subsequent generations.

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