New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

By Mike DiGirolamo The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the Labor Party promised to create a 315,000-hectare (778,000 ...

The genetic switch effectively reduces the impact of the retrovirus, strengthening the immune system of the beloved but endangered marsupial, said Keith Chappell, a virologist at the University of ...