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Caption: A multidisciplinary team -- graduate student Abhijit Mishra, left; materials science and engineering professor Gerard Wong; and postdoctoral researcher Vernita Gordon -- has solved the mystery of how a stealthy HIV protein gets into cells. They are standing next to a small angle X-ray spectrometer. Their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety of membrane types.

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.

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Related news release: Researchers discover how stealthy HIV protein gets into cells