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Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born
FiReaNGeL alerts us to a huge development in virology and microscopy: by using a specialized microscope that only illuminates a cell's surface, scientists at Rockefeller University have watched, in real time, hundreds of thousands of molecules coming together in a living cell to form a single particle of HIV-1. A video is available on Rockefeller's front page. "By zeroing in at the cell's surface, the team became the first to document the time it takes for each HIV particle, or virion, to assemble: five to six minutes. 'At first, we had no idea whether it would take milliseconds or hours,' says Jouvenet. 'We just didn't know.' 'This is the first time anyone has seen a virus particle being born,' says Bieniasz, who is an associate professor and head of the Laboratory of Retrovirology at Rockefeller and a scientist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. 'Not just HIV,' he clarifies, 'any virus.'"
A viral video that benefits science?
This video was made by the US military 20 years ago when they were developing HIV.
When they used to say that the time it took a Windows computer to go from the first boot time to an infected state was about five minutes.
Coincidence?
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Well everyone except /.ers
*cries*
I saw God's finger poke into the mix at 0:34.74sec of the video. I told you! ... hmmm, or maybe it was a noodly appendage.
Table-ized A.I.
That's pretty amazing, especially considering the video is less than 15 seconds long.
Better known as 318230.
It doesn't "effect" us, our parents did that.
Perhaps tiny little sharks with fricken lasers.