Genetic Engineering and Human Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.06.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. The Early History of HIV/ AIDS
  3. Viruses
  4. Retroviruses
  5. HIV
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Appendix
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Additional Reading and Resources

HIV: From Horror to Hope

Timothy K. Spence

Published September 2013

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Additional Reading and Resources

Nicholl, Desmond S. T.. An introduction to genetic engineering. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Scott, Andrew. Pirates of the cell: the story of viruses from molecule to microbe. Oxford Oxfordshire: Basil Blackwell, 1985.

Leibowitch, Jacques. A strange virus of unknown origin. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985.

Gallo, Robert C., Myron Essex, and Ludwik Gross. Human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus: the family of human T-lymphotropic retroviruses, their role in malignancies and association with AIDS. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1984

Gallo, Robert C., and Flossie Staal. Retrovirus biology and human disease. New York: Dekker, 1990.

" HIV Replication Cycle." National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2013. <http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding

How the HIV Infection Cycle Works

<https://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072495855/student_view0/chapter24/animation__how_the_hiv_infection_cycle_works.html

"Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation - YouTube." YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhhRQ4t95OI>.

"Retrovirus Replication." Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2013. <http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG

LOS Computational Biology: Retroviral Integration Process in the Human Genome: Is It Really Non-Random? A New Statistical Approach." PLOS Computational Biology: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2013. <http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000144>.

"Genetic Vaccines and Therapy , Full text , The use of retroviral vectors for gene therapy-what are the risks? A review of retroviral pathogenesis and its relevance to retroviral vector-mediated gene delivery." Genetic Vaccines and Therapy . N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2013. <http://www.gvt-journal.com/content/2/1/9>.

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