Word: viruses
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Because of this mechanism, which has only been theorized, the virus reproduces only some of its parts until the art-gene activates, allowing the full virus to reproduce...
Harvard researchers announced yesterday that they have found a new gene of the AIDS virus which plays a vital role in virus reproduction and may provide new targets for developing a drug to fight the deadly disease...
...gene may also prove useful in diagnosing the stages of AIDS--a disease which has killed more than 11,300 Americans. Diagnostic tests screen the blood for antibodies to different parts of a virus and predict the progress of a disease. The art-gene produces a viral protein which researchers may be able to use in these sorts of tests...
...discovery of the art-gene, published in yesterday's edition of the scientific journal Nature, demonstrates that the AIDS virus controls its reproduction by a mechanism which doctors have never seen before, Haseltine said...
...AIDS virus, which has been found to reproduce thousands of times faster than normal viruses, indicating its deadly nature, has a strange, built-in delay mechanism...