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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.
Recent Posts
- XMRV Update: The science
- Measles at the Super Bowl
- Zinc supplements for severe childhood pneumonia
- Why havent we cured cancer yeeeeeeeeet?
- Shit grad students say
- Tennessee senator not concerned about dead babies, women, or men. If they were HIV+, they werent 'regular' anyway.
- Oklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew
- Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in the bloodstream can interfere with vaccine response
- HIV Snake Oil 'cure' leads to arrests in Uganda
- Antibodies in breast milk can interfere with vaccine response
Recent Comments
- harold on Measles at the Super Bowl
- ERV on Periodic Table of Swearing
- An Ardent Skeptic on Periodic Table of Swearing
- Justicar on Measles at the Super Bowl
- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- Scented Nectar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- theshortearedowl on Measles at the Super Bowl
- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- Justicar on Periodic Table of Swearing
- John C. Welch on Periodic Table of Swearing
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About
ERVs, endogenous retroviruses, are leftover bits and pieces of retroviruses that have infected germ cells (sperm, eggs) millions of years ago.
Sometimes our genome steals genes from ERVs, like mammals stole env genes to make our placentas, but usually we just let those ERVs rot into dysfunctional and nonfunctional bits and pieces.
This ERV is Abbie Smith, a graduate student in Oklahoma studying the evolution of viruses, especially retroviruses, and how that evolution impacts our health.
