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...process. Occasionally and inexplicably; they have learned, viral nucleic-acid particles enter cells and "go underground," lying there dormant or masked for years. Or the nascent "pro-virus" molecules of new nucleic acid may play possum in this way. Virologists are having to coin words such as virion, capsid and capsomere to describe viral particles and their parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ultimate Parasite | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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