Graduate student finds a 'start/stop switch' for retroviruses
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 03:35
in Biology & Nature
A University of British Columbia doctoral candidate has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for silencing retroviruses, segments of genetic material that can lead to fatal mutations in a cell's DNA.
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