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benign virus

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benign virus

A prank virus that does not cause damage. It does such things as randomly displaying a message on screen declaring "Peace on Earth" or causing the computer to make a clicking sound every time a key is pressed on some famous person's birthday. Fortunately, most viruses are benign.



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Gene therapy typically works by introducing a benign virus or "vector" to deliver therapeutic genes inside the patient's cells.
Is it possible that aspirin is making a benign virus a killer?
The natural reaction of the public is that it's a pretty benign virus," notes Paul Lieberman of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.
 
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