Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This transmission electron ...
Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...
This is a mugshot of a killer. The little yellow dots are HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) particles, also called virions. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), an ...
Following 70 years of expertise investigating some of the most widespread and harmful viruses such as HIV, influenza and ... A combination of cryo-electron microscopy and high-speed atomic force ...
An enhanced picture of virus seen through an electron microscope. Spectacularly detailed ... such as flu and HIV/AIDS and many of the diseases associated with dementia such as Alzheimer's and ...
like these HIV particles budding on the surface of a T cell. Now a new type of electron microscope, a tunnelling electron microscope, has even made it possible to see the arrangement of atoms.