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Category: HIV/AIDS
How to make the 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time' song really scary... SIVsmPBj...
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If we're made in Gods image, God's made of gag, pol, and env.
I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. I also study epigenetic control of ERVs.
Category: HIV/AIDS
How to make the 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time' song really scary... SIVsmPBj...
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Category: HIV/AIDS
I was going to write about this topic before I knew about the recent kinda-successful HIV-1 vaccine trial! What a crazy random happenstance!
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Category: HIV/AIDS
Youre enjoying your day, everythings going your way, think scientists have cured AIDS, then along comes Debbie Downer.
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Category: HIV/AIDS
While we are on the topic of IDiot Michael Behe, I thought now would be a good time to check in on our dear friend, HIV-1 Vpu! What neat evolutionary tales do you have for us this week, HIV-1 Vpu?...
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Category: Evolution
I read a nice review article on viral evilution this weekend that really highlighted, for me, how clueless Creationists (especially Intelligent Design Creationists) are about evilution. Antiviral resistance and impact on viral replication capacity: evolution of viruses under antiviral pressure...
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Category: HIV/AIDS
A group of scientists from Mexico (Catholic population: >90%) have written a nice letter to Teh Pope in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Its brilliant because its so simple and straightforward in its reasoning why Teh Pope should support condom use....
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Category: HIV/AIDS
VIRAL NOMENCLATURE! F*CK YEAH!
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Category: HIV/AIDS
HIV-1 vaccine research-- Where promising solutions are train-wrecks, and the most likely explanation is always wrong.
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Category: HIV/AIDS
Uh oh. Ive dont it again! Enabled teh cranks by talking about HIV-1and HIV Denialism with The Conspiracy Skeptic (scroll down to find the mp3)! I was worried it would come off as too 'inside'-- Conspiracy Skeptic is an ERV...
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Category: HIV/AIDS
Hey, you all want me to nom this? If you all are interested I will, but if yall are bored with HIV Denier claims Ill ignore him. Or do you all want to nom him? *shrug* I dont mind....
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