According to an international team of scientists from the United States, Europe and Russia, non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs triggered by ancient viruses participate in the development of cancer. This electron micrograph shows particles of the Phoenix provirus resurrected from human DNA in 2006. Scale bar – 200 nm (Marie Dewannieux et al). They also found that the elimination of these vlincRNAs (very long intergenic, non-coding...
