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- noun Plural form of
retrovirus .
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RETROVIRUSES MEETING AT COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY The types of viruses known as retroviruses cause some cancers as well as AIDS.
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Viruses such as HIV that insert themselves into host chromosomes, called retroviruses, were discovered at UW-Madison in the 1970s.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Viruses such as HIV that insert themselves into host chromosomes, called retroviruses, were discovered at UW-Madison in the 1970s.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In 1996, researchers discovered that viruses called retroviruses, which live inside of cells, could be transmitted from pig cells to human cells.
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Viruses such as HIV that insert themselves into host chromosomes, called retroviruses, were discovered at UW-Madison in the 1970s.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In 1996, researchers discovered that viruses called retroviruses, which live inside of cells, could be transmitted from pig cells to human cells.
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First, the viruses employed in the process, called retroviruses, are associated with cancer because they insert DNA anywhere in a cell's genome, thereby potentially triggering the expression of cancer-causing genes, or oncogenes.
Science and Reason 2008
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First, the viruses employed in the process, called retroviruses, are associated with cancer because they insert DNA anywhere in a cell's genome, thereby potentially triggering the expression of cancer-causing genes, or oncogenes.
Science and Reason 2008
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First, the viruses employed in the process, called retroviruses, are associated with cancer because they insert DNA anywhere in a cell's genome, thereby potentially triggering the expression of cancer-causing genes, or oncogenes.
Science and Reason 2008
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One of its authors was David Baltimore, Nobel laureate, star of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's biology department and one of the discoverers of "retroviruses," in which RNA makes DNA rather than vice versa.
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