Any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA)

Usage examples of retrovirus.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

McClintock and Temin and Baltimore, among many others, proved the Central Dogma to be wrong, demonstrating that genes can produce products that insert copies of themselves, that retroviruses can write themselves to DNA as proviruses and stay there for many millions of years.

Retroviruses like HIV in particular seem closely related to retrotransposons and ERV in the cells of many organisms.

Caroline Lampert, all of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reportedly concerns a radical new approach to attacking carcinomas through genetically engineered retroviruses.

The origin of most human cancers, the experts contended, would prove to be retroviruses as well, and hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into research to prove this assumption.

Erasmus has convinced me that the current strain of the retrovirus is sufficiently deadly for our purposes, though it kills only forty-three percent of the humans who are exposed.

Caroline had been working on how the envelope proteins of retroviruses fit with receptor sites.

There're going to be many sleepless engineers earning their overtime checksumming the operating system files for signs of retrovirus in fection.

Let's not confuse our ERV with someone else's ERV—equine rhinovirus, for example, or ecotropic recombinant retrovirus, or, something we've all experienced in these sessions, a sudden loss of expiratory reserve volume.

When that part of the host chromosome comes to be transcribed, the cell's protein-manufacturing machinery makes a new retrovirus, which leaves by budding off through the cell membrane.

Her fingers pushed the pen over the paper almost without conscious thought, sketching a series of open reading frames on chromosomes 18 and 20 that might bear a relation to the SHEVA genes, previously identified as possible HERVs but turning out not to have the defining characteristics of retrovirus fragments.

They have confirmed the existence of the first viable human endogenous retrovirus.

Some human endogenous retroviruses are closely related to HIV, which goes after our immune systems with a vengeance.

She aligned herself with a biological-weapons project solely because this was the only way to obtain the high level of funding needed to realize her design for a gene splicing retrovirus, which she believed could be used to cure many illnesses and inherited disorder snot least of all, my XP.

She had spent much of her career studying lysogenic phages in bacteria and retroviruses in apes and humans.