Seeing through HIV's disguises
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Studying HIV-1, the most common and infectious HIV subtype, scientists have identified 25 human proteins "stolen" by the virus that may be critical to its ability to infect new cells. The researchers believe these 25 proteins may be particularly important because they are found in HIV-1 viruses coming from two very different types of infected cells.