destructive
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Researchers discovered how to strip away HIV’s destructive genes and repurpose it as a “lentiviral vector”—a tool to deliver therapeutic genes directly to cells and integrate them into a patient’s DNA.
Whether the attack was one carried out by traditional military assets or through some other means, such as a destructive cyber operation or a covert action led by the Central Intelligence Agency, is also uncertain.
Is fire management the unintended cause of destructive crown fires?
From Los Angeles Times
On the opposite coast, Southern California faced an even more destructive threat.
From Salon
But Beijing worries this isn’t sustainable and frets about deflationary and destructive price competition as companies try to dump at home any goods they can’t sell abroad.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
