Human Retroviruses
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 42 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0162-3109
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## Abstract Retrovirology emerged as a branch of science at the beginning of the last century. However, a deeper insight into the pathology of retroviruses and retrovirusβinduced cancers could only be gained after the advent of modern biochemical and molecular biological techniques in the 1970s and