HIV-1’s high virulence might be an accident of evolution
aids | biotechnology | cell signaling | evolution | genes | hiv | immune system | lymphocytes | viruses
The virulence characteristic of HIV-1–the virus predominantly responsible for human AIDS–might amount to an accident of evolution, new evidence reveals. A gene function lost during the course of viral evolution predisposed HIV-1 to spur the fatal immune system failures that are the hallmarks of AIDS, researchers report in the June 16, 2006 Cell. AIDS has killed [...]
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