Humanized mouse infected with HIV vaginally and rectally allows testing
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 13:49
in Biology & Nature
The "humanized mouse" developed by Dr. J. Victor Garcia-Martinez has allowed the University of Texas Southwestern physician-scientist to conduct HIV/AIDS studies that would have been impossible without such a small animal model of HIV infection. The virus only infects humans and chimpanzees, which are protected as endangered species.