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Reflections on a Life of CNAPS: From Circulating DNA to the Virtosome

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Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a theoretical fight occurred between Western and Russian scientists concerning the theory explaining the mechanism of evolution. Was evolution the result of mutations occurring by chance so favouring the survival of the fittest or were acquired characteristics, through a different surrounding, the basis of evolution? For the western geneticists the lack of contact between the soma and the germen prevented the transmission to the next generation of a modification appearing in part of a pluricellular organism. By proposing and demonstrating the existence of circulating DNA that is contained in a nucleoprotein particle – the virtosome – we refuted the germinal theory of Weisman on evolution. The virtosome also opens wide avenues in the field of medicine.

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    Maurice Stroun

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    Peter B. Gahan

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Stroun, M. (2010). Reflections on a Life of CNAPS: From Circulating DNA to the Virtosome. In: Gahan, P. (eds) Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9382-0_2

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