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Efficient SARS-CoV-2 Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase PCR Saliva Diagnostic Strategy utilizing Open-Source Pipetting Robots

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SOLVED: The earliest drugs developed to treat HIV disease were "anti-reverse-transcriptase" agents. These agents were effective and relatively safe because they targeted the reverse transcriptase enzyme, which is essential for the replication of the HIV virus. By inhibiting this enzyme, the drugs prevented the virus from replicating and spreading throughout the body. This approach was effective because it specifically targeted the virus without significantly affecting normal cellular processes.

SOLVED:In HIV infection, reverse transcriptase inhibitors prevent infection of new cells. a) Assuming that such an inhibitor is available as a drug and is 100 % efficient, write down the equations for the subsequent dynamics of the infected cells and free virus. b) Show that the number of infected cells falls exponentially, and assuming that the half-life of the virus is much less than that of the virus-producing cells, the amount of free virus falls exponentially after a shoulder phase.

SOLVED: (Ch 19) What is the function of reverse transcriptase in retroviruses?It copies viral RNA into complementary DNA templateIt hydrolyzes the host cell's DNAIt uses viral RNA as template for making complementary RNA strandsIt converts host cell RNA into viral DNAIt translates viral RNA into proteins

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