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From: michael@ucbiris.berkeley.edu (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954])
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.med
Subject: Interesting AIDS fact
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 14:37:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 14:37:04 1986
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"Analysis of the molecular structure of AIDS virus DNA shows it mutates
up to a 1,000,000 times faster than the standard mutation rate for DNA
from other organisms.  The high rate of mutation, the researchers [Hahn
& colleagues, June 20 Science] suggest, could be what allows the AIDS
virus to escape attack by the immune system."
-- Science News, June 28, 1986
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