Shape-shifting molecule tricks viruses into mutating themselves to death
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
This image depicts the shape-shifting capabilities of the anti-HIV drug KP1212. A newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by which an anti-HIV drug induces lethal mutations in the virus's genetic material. The findings from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could bolster efforts to develop the next generation of anti-viral treatments.