New insight on HIV life cycle gained through creative use of high-energy X-rays
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A key step in the decades-long mystery of the HIV life cycle was uncovered using what formerly was thought of as only a supplementary X-ray technique for structural biology. This advances study of HIV as well as highlights a powerful tool to obtain currently unobtainable high-resolution structural determination and characterization of RNA molecules.