Scientists 'see' how HIV matures into an infection

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 12:56 in Health & Medicine

After improving the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), researchers at the University of Missouri actually watched the HIV-1 protease mature from an inactive form into an active infection. This process has never been directly visualized before. The findings appear today in the journal Nature.

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