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Robin Weiss

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British molecular biologist

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Robin Weiss
Biology
#1884
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#3052
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#886
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Virology
#104
World Rank
#107
Historical Rank
#35
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Molecular Biology
#439
World Rank
#448
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#146
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According to Wikipedia, Robert Anthony "Robin" Weiss is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Research His research has focussed on retroviruses, initially as a means of understanding T-cell leukemia and other cancers, which may be caused by retroviruses. A break-through discovery in 1971 was that the retroviral genome in chickens follows the rules of Mendelian inheritance. Later his work moved on to HIV, also a retrovirus, and made several new important discoveries, most notably identifying CD4 on lymphocytes as the binding receptor for HIV.

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