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Latent

dormant. A state that some cancer cells might assume. (Opp: growing or active). Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized; a latent fingerprint; latent talent.Not presently active; latent infection; latent diabetes.Dormant, but with energy potential.


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Re: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes

... thing I see is that these are reoccurring mutations--which are repeated in the population. But not necessarily passed from father to son. They are latent within our genetic material though. This fact and the fact that they are called disorders kind of flies in the face of evolutionary thought. ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:20 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to transmission of harmful genes
Replies: 34
Views: 1372

virology

... having trouble with answering properly. The first question is, I have an answer somewhat but I don't know the exact reason why retroviruses cause latent infections. Can someone help me. 1. Discuss why some retroviruses cause latent infections. Retroviruses are known to belong to the viral family ...

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by rabia
Tue May 06, 2008 7:32 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: virology
Replies: 3
Views: 1401

Re: HIV danger

... infection can be kept under control and the T-cell count up for years. However, because the virus still resides inside the cells, and because of latent viruses that later activate (the drugs only inhibit viral replication, do not actually "kill" them), eventually a multiresistant strain ...

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by biohazard
Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:58 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: HIV danger
Replies: 4
Views: 1034

The Fiber Disease

In our case, this agent is also latent. Tam tam has also said a significant percentage of the population has been exposed with only a relatively small number displaying symptoms. I believe that myself and all of you are the "canary's ...

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by southcity
Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:28 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748648

The Fiber Disease

... however; the graph is a starting point for the user to investigate these relationships. Firstly, the system to some extent extracts knowledge latent within the retrieved information. For example, the proteins involved in the recombinosome or repairosome have been clustered. The extraction ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:38 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748648
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