Word: infections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...create a high-security atmosphere. In addition, despite the rash of school shootings, fights and other disturbances in schools are down by between 20 and 30 percent, figures that reflect a general decline in violence. And then there is the matter of a strong economy; good times tend to infect the national psyche with a pervasive sense of well-being. Nothing like extra pocket money to bring back teenagers? infamous sense of invincibility...
...fate have tossed together George and Dale? Roy and Gracie? I have a hard time picturing Bonnie and Ozzie. There's a wizened couple who travel in New York semi-literary circles who are both so poisonous, it is impossible to believe the gods would have allowed them to infect two others...
Scientists had hoped the virus would infect immune system cells, but would prove unable to replicate itself to the point that it would seriously damage the host's immune system...
Some researchers look forward to the day when gene therapy is used to repair damaged genes. With the new vectors, they would infect cells with small molecules that combine DNA and RNA. These hybrid molecules would seek out and bind to the defective gene, enabling it to function normally. "It would be like a repair mechanism," Wilson explains, "rather than a replacement...
Seeking the best candidate, Verma zeroed in on the most notorious of the retroviruses--HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He eliminated the protein envelope that allows the virus entry into T cells, substituted one enabling it to infect a greater variety of cells, and removed the six genes that make the virus dangerous...