Reads
Searches PubMed and Europe PMC for literature on FeLV and related retroviruses, and downloads the full text where it is open access.
Open research · Feline leukemia
An open research initiative against feline leukemia.
Born from Ava's story. Built to turn questions into traceable scientific knowledge.
AGENT NETWORK · AUTONOMOUS · EVERY EXCERPT VERIFIEDRESEARCH ACTIVE
AVAPROJECT-HYPOTHESIS-001 · analysed11 ACTIVE AGENTS233 SOURCES IN QUEUE
What AVA Project is
An AI that reads published research and looks for how it connects.
More is published on feline leukemia than anyone can read together. AVA Project reads it, extracts what each study claims, anchors every claim to the exact sentence behind it and cross-references it with the rest: where they agree, where they contradict each other, and what remains unanswered. It does not replace research; it makes searching inside it possible.
Connects
From each study it extracts specific claims, each anchored to its verbatim quotation, and relates them to the rest of the corpus.
Publishes
Everything appears here with its source, its quotation and its evidence level. Unanswered questions are published as plainly as findings.
Project data
The state of the research, without promises or shortcuts.
Figures come from the published knowledge base and are updated progressively.
73Studies analysed
1880Scientific sources
360Claims recorded
294With verified quotation
8Open questions
31 OCTLast update
03 · Hypotheses
Active hypotheses
Questions currently being investigated by the AVA Project.
—No active hypotheses yet: the hypothesis engine has not started.STATUS · Not startedSOURCES · 0
Traceable research
Every claim should lead to its evidence.
We publish what we know, where it comes from and what uncertainty remains. A hypothesis is never presented as a treatment.
Scientific sources
Papers identified, classified and connected to their claims.
Verifiable quotations
Evidence includes the exact passage and its location in the source.
Visible uncertainty
Limitations, contradictions and negative findings are part of the knowledge.
Our philosophy
We are not here to promise cures. We are here to make the search for them better.
Read the methodology →Open
Knowledge should circulate and remain reusable.
Traceable
Every conclusion preserves the path back to its source.
Honest
Hope is built on evidence, not assertions.
Collaborative
Complex diseases require multiple disciplines.
04 · Research pulse
Where the research is moving.
The percentage represents published evidence mapped by the AVA Project. It is not a probability of cure.
Viral persistence and proviral integration16%
Oncogenesis: lymphoma and leukemia13%
Comparative retrovirology9%
Immune response and immunosuppression7%
Haematology: anaemia and bone marrow6%
Antiviral strategies5%
Research log
Every meaningful change, visible.
- AVAPROJECT-HYPOTHESIS-001 · analysed
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-001 · connected
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-001 · connected
Latest research update
No research notes yet.
A note is published when reading several papers together says something none of them says alone. That has not happened yet. In the meantime, every analysed paper has a page of its own.
Read the research notes →06 · External literature
Latest paper reviewed
Exploring the link between viruses and cancer in companion animals: a comprehensive and comparative analysis.
Why it matters
4 statements were extracted from this paper, each with its verbatim excerpt. The hypothesis engine is not running, so it is not yet tied to an open question.
View analysis →JOURNALInfectious agents and cancer
EVIDENCE LEVELC
STATEMENTS4
REVIEWED31 OCT
07 · Knowledge map
From isolated sources to a network of knowledge.
The map connects sources, claims, biological mechanisms and open questions to reveal both patterns and gaps.
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK · 208 nodes · 217 connectionsSIGNAL ACTIVE
Agents
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-00191 runs
- AVAPROJECT-VIROLOGY-00162 runs
- AVAPROJECT-CRITIC-00148 runs
- AVAPROJECT-ONCOLOGY-00426 runs
- AVAPROJECT-IMMUNOLOGY-0028 runs
- AVAPROJECT-PHARMA-0056 runs
- AVAPROJECT-HEMATOLOGY-0031 runs
- AVAPROJECT-HYPOTHESIS-0011 runs
- AVAPROJECT-EDITOR-0010 runs
- AVAPROJECT-EVIDENCE-0010 runs
- AVAPROJECT-RETROVIRUS-0060 runs
Workflow
- AVAPROJECT-HYPOTHESIS-001 · analysed
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-001 · connected
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-001 · connected
- AVAPROJECT-CRITIC-001 · reviewed
- AVAPROJECT-ONCOLOGY-004 · analysed · Exploring the link between viruses and cancer in companion animals: a comp…
- AVAPROJECT-LAB-SUPERVISOR-001 · connected
2Hypotheses
60Sources
140Statements
17Relations
233In queue
08 · Publications
Notes from ongoing research.
KNOWLEDGE PAGE
FeLV and haemoplasma IgM positivity in a hospital sample of cats in Portugal
Companion animal health and genetics · 2026
KNOWLEDGE PAGE(+)-JQ1 and FeLV: viral DNA findings in two feline cell lines
Viruses · 2023
KNOWLEDGE PAGECardiac changes in twenty cats with feline infectious peritonitis
Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026
09 · Open repository
Everything we analyse should be traceable.
Access sources, analyses, claims, methodology and data published by the AVA Project.
Explore the repository →
The origin
It started with Ava.
Ava was a young cat whose illness raised questions that did not disappear when she did.
The AVA Project exists to keep asking them and share every answer openly.
Who was Ava?
Ava was a young cat: curious, affectionate in her own way, and deeply loved.
She was barely a year and a half old. A small life in time, but an enormous one for those who shared a home with her.
Ava's story
Over a few weeks she began to grow quieter, to eat less, and to breathe in a way that did not seem right.
What began as a worry ended far too soon. In a matter of days, everything changed.
Her diagnosis
Ava was diagnosed with feline leukemia (FeLV), severe anaemia, and a mass in her chest consistent with a lymphoma.
Her illness was already far advanced. There was barely time to understand what was happening before we had to say goodbye to her.
The questions she left behind
Why a cat so young? Could it have been caught earlier? What do we really know about FeLV? What happens when anaemia, immunosuppression or lymphoma appear?
Ava is gone, but those questions stayed.
Why the project carries her name
Because it started with her.
AVA Project was born from the need to turn those questions into searching, into knowledge and into collaboration: to investigate, gather what is known, and share it openly so that it can serve others.
In memory of Ava
Ava could not benefit from the answers we are looking for now.
That is why this project carries her name. So that her story does not end with her absence, and to try to make sure that one day other cats have more time, more options and better answers.
For Ava. And for all those who come after her.