Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:49AM from the begotten-in-dire-woe dept.

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.'"

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404? by 42forty-two42 · 2008-05-25 09:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

The link from RU's frontpage seems to be broken - anyone have a mirror?
1. Re:404? by Vectronic · 2008-05-25 09:25 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
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  Thats what I get, if only they had the power of a Slashdotting, they might be able to eliminate HIV...
Re:A viral video... by inflamed · 2008-05-25 18:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

Thanks for the troll. It has long fuzzy hair and a nice rotund belly.