It also created a new field, retrovirology, and, more than that, as the Nobel committee noted when it awarded the 1975 Prize in Medicine to both Baltimore and Temin, it began to erase the tenuous borders between viruses and genes.
While we're on the subject of incarceration at Christmas, let's please innovate a bipartisan end to the cruel abuse and incarceration of people in offshore limbos because they committed the unlisted crime of hope, a hope so brave and so tenuous that it borders on despair.
This last week was a reminder of how tenuous life on the Israeli border can be.
Two weeks ago Palestinian militant factions, including Hamas, sharply stepped up the rocket fire from across the border, ending a tenuous six-month cease-fire.
But Al Qaeda is merely lying in wait in Pakistan, a country whose border with Afghanistan is disputed and tenuous.
The Luhansk region is largely under the control of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic forces, however the region's border with Russia, for now, remains under tenuous Ukrainian control.
Though most Khmer Rouge leaders are living in Pailin, a border town where the government's grip is tenuous, they no longer have an army.
Across the border in Myanmar, cease-fires with the ethnic armies are tenuous where they exist.
The continued fighting along the western border, and the confusing situation in the east, highlighted the tenuous hold that the Western-backed government of Hamid Karzai exerts over this fractious and war-torn country.
Proximity to the insecure border areas of the Bekaa and North Lebanon and living in more tenuous shelter was associated with less iron and less adequate dietary intake.
With most of the planet's rhinos in Kruger Park, which borders on Mozambique, the future of the species remains extremely tenuous unless South Africa and the world takes action to hold Maputo and individuals linked to the North Korean regime to account.
