Scientists Image A Single HIV Particle Being Born
Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 13:21
in Biology & Nature
By using a specialized microscope that only illuminates the cell's surface, scientists have for the first time, in real time and in plain view, seen 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.