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		rikroots on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good... Without viral help, none of us would be here to have this conversation. Retroviruses control gene expression in pregnancy - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177113/

ProjectArcturis on May 26, 2023 [–]

I had never heard of endogenous retroviruses before! They raise the question: if a virus writes itself into the genome, is it even a virus anymore?

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