Humanized Mouse Infected With HIV Vaginally And Rectally Allows Testing

Monday, April 20, 2009 - 18:14 in Biology & Nature

A "humanized mouse" has allowed physician-scientists to conduct HIV/AIDS studies that would have been impossible without such a small animal model of HIV infection. The virus only infects humans and chimpanzees, which are protected as endangered species.

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