Sentences with 'retrovirus'
Example sentences and phrases with the word retrovirus and other words derived from it.
• « Today the world is terrified by a retrovirus discovered in the 1980s, which may have jumped to humans from some animal species (it is distantly related to one that affects African green monkeys); it is the cause of the disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. »
• « HIV is actually a retrovirus because it has the property of irreversibly integrating itself into a person's genetic make-up. How does it do this? With the help of a certain kind of enzyme, it manages to insert itself into the genetic structure of the healthy cell. »