Early immune response needed for hit-and-hide cancer viruses
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 18:35
in Biology & Nature
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Retroviruses such as HIV and HTLV-1 don't hit-and-run, they hit-and-hide. They slip into host cells and insert their own DNA into the cell's DNA, and from this refuge they...
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