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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes 7 Oct 2017

    Ancient viruses are buried in our DNA, and scientists are only starting to figure out what it's doing to ushttp://nyti.ms/2fQoqu4 

    5:27 PM - 7 Oct 2017
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      2. ste han‏ @FactOfOpinion1 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Yea, just look at trump! Not good!

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. ste han‏ @FactOfOpinion1 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @FactOfOpinion1 @nytimes

        He's a "Moronderthal"

        2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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      2. Jose Ramon Villegas‏ @JoseRamonVille6 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Most of our viral DNA comes from one group in particular: retroviruses, a group that includes HIV.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Jose Ramon Villegas‏ @JoseRamonVille6 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @JoseRamonVille6 @nytimes

        Hemo is not the only protein with such an alien origin:Our DNA contains pieces of viral DNA,they make up about8 percent of the human genome

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      1. purrs.growls.howls‏ @serina_arlene 7 Oct 2017
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        what we call viruses are just another part of us.

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      1. Jose Ramon Villegas‏ @JoseRamonVille6 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        protein called Hemo,made by a fetus and the placenta, is produced from viral DNA that entered our ancestors’ genomes 100 million years ago.

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      1. Jose Ramon Villegas‏ @JoseRamonVille6 7 Oct 2017
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        In addition, the viral protein caused the cells to switch on other genes that have been linked to cancer.

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      1. Amazing Polly‏ @99freemind 7 Oct 2017
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        This is very likely bull*hit. I take everything NYT says as the opposite of "truth."

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      1. Bax Bemke‏ @Maxwell_Lemke 7 Oct 2017
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        Gimme some of those

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      1. angie e. vanhorn‏ @angieevanhorn 7 Oct 2017
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        I'm RT. & interested in this subject to learn more. Thank you NYTimes...This is how I educating & discipline myself everyday, by reading...

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      1. Joe Catcher‏ @JoeCatcher1 7 Oct 2017
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        Maybe that's why we're so screwed up.

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      1. (((Joe Trask)))‏ @trask3rd 10 Oct 2017
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        "The faults are in our software, too, not just in ourselves." Or something like that.

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      1. Dave (not related to Alexander) Nix‏ @simple_secure 8 Oct 2017
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        Sounds a lot like Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio", eh?

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      1. Jas Lake‏ @999FineG 8 Oct 2017
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        You can just look at Hillary, Nancy and Maxine too see what It does.

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      1. Thomas Trautzsch‏ @TTrautzsch 7 Oct 2017
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        ... or for us .

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      1.  🕺 🇺🇸 (staying, I guess)‏ @dsurban 7 Oct 2017
        Replying to @nytimes @sergenyt

        I got I got I got I got loyalty got royalty inside my DNA

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      1. (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖) 👌(≖‿‿≖) 👍‏ @realtruesmiles 7 Oct 2017
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        holy holy shet

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