proviruses
- plural of provirus.
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All 54 tissue samples we analyzed had some evidence of activity of one or more of these proviruses.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
We looked for sequences that matched each HML-2 provirus in the genome and found 37 different HML-2 proviruses that were still active.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
There are around 30 different kinds of human endogenous retroviruses in people today, amounting to over 60,000 proviruses in the human genome.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
Over the past 15 years, researchers have tried to drain the reservoirs of HIV hiding in the chromosomes of infected people with drugs meant to prod the proviruses into producing new viruses.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2022
Independently, Lillian Cohn, an immunologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, made a similar finding: In people on ARVs for between 4 and 21 years, HIV proviruses were preferentially integrated in certain ZNF genes.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2022
