[Dean's World] Dean: Resurrecting Retroviruses

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Posted by Dean:
Resurrecting Retroviruses
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1172767954.shtml


   [1]Fascinating.

   Did you know that when they discovered HIV, it was one of the very
   first, tiny handful of retroviruses anyone had ever identified? And
   that they didn't decide until some time after its discovery to look
   for it in the early AIDS patients--and that they found it in a lot of
   them but not all of them? Now, it turns out, retroviruses are quite
   common, they aren't rare at all, and they're all so simple that
   they're relatively easy to reproduce in a lab--and most of 'em don't
   do much of anything.

   Isn't that amazing.

References

   1. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070227213714.htm