Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 16:14
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA - docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell wall as they are ensconced by HIV structural proteins.