Shape-shifting molecule tricks viruses into mutating themselves to death

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

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' 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.

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