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Through a collaboration between the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, researchers were able to take a snapshot of a stage of the mechanism by which the enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT) works on a strand of viral DNA to make new copies...
According to Harrison, when HIV enters a human cell, it uses RT and RNA to form a new strand of viral DNA. Then this strand is used to make another one,which when joined with the first, forms the fameddouble helix...
Sullivan's new book is a series of three connected essays. The title refers to both recent changes in the prognosis of HIV patients, who can now reduce their viral load to undetectable levels, as well as to the conspicuous absence of love in the dialogue of gay and lesbian issues...
...best known for its success as part of the AIDS "cocktail." But a study out last week shows that the drug may be useful in treating chronic hepatitis B, a liver disease with more than 300 million sufferers worldwide. In a one-year trial on Chinese patients, viral levels in the blood fell more than 90% for those who took the drug...
...spikes of protein stick out of its side, swathed in sugar so our antibodies won't be able to tell it apart from the other proteins in our blood. Not only that, HIV is also able to change shape. Dr. Joseph Sodroski, one of the researchers, branded it "a viral Houdini...