Scientists Image Single HIV Particle Being Born
Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 12:35
in Physics & Chemistry
By using a specialized microscope that only illuminates the cell's surface, scientists at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center have become the first to see, in real time and in plain view, hundreds of thousands of molecules coming together in a living cell to form a single particle of the virus that has, in less than 25 years, claimed more than 25 million lives: HIV.