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crippleware

(ˈkrɪpəlˌwɛə)

(Computer Science) a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software

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Crippled versions of HIV can efficiently insert new genes into chromosomes, report investigators from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., in the April 12 Science.

Crippled HIV debuts as gene therapy tool

He says scientists have identified regions of the tat protein that appear critical to its proper functioning, and in theory it is possible to engineer human bone marrow cells to produce appropriately crippled versions of that HIV protein.