Scientists Find Missing Clue to How HIV Hacks Cells to Propagate Itself (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Scientists Find Missing Clue to How HIV Hacks Cells to Propagate Itself

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UChicago scientists modeled how the HIV protein Gag is involved in forcing a victim's cell to make a capsule of HIV to infect other cells, a process called "budding."

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Voth et. al / University of Chicago

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