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  • Initially I started to work on virus-induced chromosomal modifications and at the same time received relatively solid training in diagnostic bacteriology and virology, both of them at that time in an early stage of development.

    Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography 2009

  • Treating cultured human bronchial cells with POPG inhibited virus-induced inflammation by 91% but the control lipid had no effect.

    Losing Baby Fat Lowers Heart Risks Later Ann Lukits 2011

  • Harald zur Hausen demonstrated novel properties of HPV that have led to an understanding of mechanisms for papilloma virus-induced carcinogenesis and the predisposing factors for viral persistence and cellular transformation.

    The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2008

  • Swine Flu is a virus-induced respiratory illness in pigs.

    Printing: Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers 2009

  • Today we know that at least three cancers are virus-induced: cervical cancer (Human Papiloma Virus, or HPV), liver cancer (Hepatitis B), and lymphoma (Epstein-Barr virus).

    Is There A Brain Tumor Virus? 2009

  • Swine Flu is a virus-induced respiratory illness in pigs.

    Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers 2009

  • In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice - lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.

    Americans Finally Favor the Legalization of Marijuana 2009

  • The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."

    Marijuana Slows Tumor Growth 2008

  • The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's primary psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."

    Paul Armentano: What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You 2008

  • It took a little while to figure out that Google had identified my searches as potentially virus-induced and temporarily blocked my IP address.

    I'm on Google's blacklist josh 2008

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