Within cells, ribonucleic acids (RNA’s) generally have a transient role. The central dogma of biology declares DNA as the library for genetic information. Its genetic instructions are translated by RNA and synthesised into proteins by the actions of certain enzymes within the cell. This is a complicated transference of nucleotidic information into touch by a translation thought to only operate in a single direction. In the 1960’s scientist Howard Temin speculated that tumour-causing viruses could translate information in the opposite direction, from RNA chains into DNA. This theory was proved alongside the biologist David Baltimore in 1970, when the pair discovered an enzyme within tumour virus particles thought not to exist. It could translate information in the opposite direction, hence the name reverse transcriptase – an enzyme that reorganised the hierarchies of a genetic library. RNA used to act as the medium by which biological information could translate into the physical space. It now acts as the original text for translation, the medium as the massage, towards a cancerous version of the original cell.