Proto-oncogenes regulate cell growth; mutations convert them to oncogenes, leading to cancer by disrupting normal cell division processes.

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His early medical research probed the Rous sarcoma retrovirus, a cancer-causing virus that was first observed in birds. Dr.

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A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

DNA can be duplicated or read to produce RNA, which is translated to generate protein. So ran the 'central dogma' of biology, devised by Francis Crick in 1958 to explain the directional flow of ...

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Their current efforts are directed towards understanding the mechanisms associated with the assembly of HIV-1 and Rouse Sarcoma Virus (RSV) IN-DNA complexes and their analyses at atomic-resolution ...

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KS is caused by a virus called human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV). KS develops when infected cells that line lymph or blood vessels begin to ...