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  • initialism military, US Assault Amphibious Vehicle

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  • The trial evaluated the safety of a modified adeno-associated virus - an apparently harmless virus known as AAV that already exists in most people - as a vector to deliver the alpha-SG gene to muscle tissue.

    University of Florida News 2009

  • What Kaspar and his team found was that the same effect could be achieved simply by injecting genes - ferried aboard a small, non-disease-causing virus known as AAV, or adeno-associated virus - into the muscle.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • What Kaspar and his team found was that the same effect could be achieved simply by injecting genes - ferried aboard a small, non-disease-causing virus known as AAV, or adeno-associated virus - into the muscle.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • The trial evaluated the safety of a modified adeno-associated virus - an apparently harmless virus known as AAV that already exists in most people - as a vector to deliver the alpha-SG gene to muscle tissue.

    University of Florida News 2009

  • What Kaspar and his team found was that the same effect could be achieved simply by injecting genes - ferried aboard a small, non-disease-causing virus known as AAV, or adeno-associated virus - into the muscle.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • What Kaspar and his team found was that the same effect could be achieved simply by injecting genes - ferried aboard a small, non-disease-causing virus known as AAV, or adeno-associated virus - into the muscle.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • The research, led by Kenneth Smith from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, looked at patients with two types of autoimmune disease: a type of vasculitis characterised by inflammation of the blood vessels known as AAV, and lupus, a disease caused by antibodies acting against the body's own tissues.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The research, led by Kenneth Smith from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, looked at patients with two types of autoimmune disease: a type of vasculitis characterised by inflammation of the blood vessels known as AAV, and lupus, a disease caused by antibodies acting against the body's own tissues.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The AAV is the same and if you assume the market for wins this year is depressed, it should bounce up a bit next year, making the inflation adjusted value of the contract less for the Tigers next year.

    Comments for FanGraphs Baseball cheap airforceoneshoes 2010

  • It also will help the Corps retrofit the Nixon-era Amphibious Assault Vehicles, or AAV, with new engines, electronics and armaments for now, but generals say there is no doubt they need to be replaced soon.

    Marines define future role amid budget cuts 2011

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