Discovering Retroviruses - Beacons in the Biosphere

Informationen zum Autor Anna Marie Skalka is Professor Emerita at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Klappentext Eight percent of our DNA contains retroviruses that are millions of years old. Anna Marie Skalka explains how our evolving knowledge of these particles has advanced genetic engineering! gene delivery systems! and precision medicine. Retroviruses cause disease but also hold clues to prevention and treatment possibilities that are anything but retro. Zusammenfassung Eight percent of our DNA contains retroviruses that are millions of years old. Anna Marie Skalka explains how our evolving knowledge of these particles has advanced genetic engineering! gene delivery systems! and precision medicine. Retroviruses cause disease but also hold clues to prevention and treatment possibilities that are anything but retro.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna M. Skalka, Anna Marie Skalka, Skalka Anna Marie
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780674971707
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97170-7
• Seiten: 192
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; Microbiology (non-medical), Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, Oncology, Genetics (non-medical), MEDICAL / Oncology / General, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases