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Hairpin ribozyme 3D structure
...that the
hairpin ribozyme
(pictured)
is an
RNA
that can encode
genetic
information and
catalyse
biological
reactions
?
...that in the 1980s British physician
John R. Seale
advocated the theory that
HIV
might have been created in a
germ warfare
laboratory?
...that the
Visna virus
, a
retrovirus
that causes
encephalitis
and chronic
pneumonitis
in
sheep
, is used as a
model system
for
HIV
infection?
...that
Thomas C. Peebles
, who went on to isolate the
measles
virus strain used in the
measles vaccine
, was initially rejected by
Harvard Medical School
because he had gotten a D in college biology?
...that studies in
phage ecology
indicate that
viruses
may be the most abundant
organisms
on
Earth
?
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