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Retrovirus causing leukaemia in rodents often also causes a wasting syndrome, which could be the result of secondary immune depression.
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Retrovirus: an RNA virus that keeps its genes in the form of RNA and is capable, by virtue of an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, to convert its genes from the RNA form into a DNA form.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Retrovirus: an RNA virus that keeps its genes in the form of RNA and is capable, by virtue of an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, to convert its genes from the RNA form into a DNA form.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Certain viruses also use RNA, not DNA, to maintain their genes see Retrovirus, above.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Certain viruses also use RNA, not DNA, to maintain their genes see Retrovirus, above.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Certain viruses also use RNA, not DNA, to maintain their genes see Retrovirus, above.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Retrovirus: an RNA virus that keeps its genes in the form of RNA and is capable, by virtue of an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, to convert its genes from the RNA form into a DNA form.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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MEDICINEGood News and Bad News About AIDSNot surprisingly, leading AIDS researchers shared disturbing news last week at the annual Retrovirus Conference in San Francisco -- everything from HIV complacency to the scary case of a man who appears to be "superinfected" with two separate strains of the virus.
Social Fabric 2008
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The Retrovirus yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Retrovirus'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The Rove Project for a Republican 21st Century, like HIV and other retroviruses, would kill our democracy.'
The Retrovirus 2007
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The honour is heightened by his listing us alongside ScienceBloggers Deep Sea News and Zooillogix, that unflappable slayer of both HIV and creationism that is ERV (that's Endogenous Retrovirus to you), whose tag-line I vote the all-time best in blogdom ("If we're made in God's image, God's made of gag, pol, and env") and last but not least rock-flipping advocate Cephalopodcast (now with 20% more Kraken).
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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