DAP3 and cancer: We have shown that some LTRs of the HERV‐K(HML‐10) family of HERVs, which invaded the ancestral genome about 35 million years ago, have retained promoter activity.13 Moreover, one of the LTRs primes a regulatory transcript that suppresses the expression of the death‐associated protein‐3 gene (DAP3) implicated in apoptosis.13 Knockdown of the retroviral transcript was sufficient to induce apoptosis in cancer cell lines in vitro, suggesting that the LTR may contribute to the apoptosis‐evading phenotype of some cancer cells.