Charting HIV's Rapidly Changing Journey In The Body
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 00:42
in Health & Medicine
HIV is so deadly largely because it evolves so rapidly. With a single virus as the origin of an infection, most patients will quickly come to harbor thousands of different versions of HIV, all a little bit different and all competing with one another to most efficiently infect that person's cells. Now scientists have settled a longstanding question about just how HIV morphs in the body.