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After entering an immune cell, HIV's single-stranded RNA genome is reverse-transcribed into double-stranded DNA, which is how our cells store genetic information. The virus' genome is incorporated ...

One of the significant challenges in HIV treatment is the virus's ability to integrate its genome into the host's DNA, making ...

Cleavage of the HIV DNA at two locations yielded a single internal ... Livak, K.J. & Williams, P.M. Real time quantitative PCR. Genome Res. 6, 986–994 (1996).

For the Human Genome Project, researchers collected blood (female) or sperm (male) samples from a large number of donors. Only a few samples were processed as DNA resources, and the source names ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed ... diversity is generated in the human genome, and its relationship to health and ...