Structure of HIV coat may help develop new drugs

WASHINGTON – Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have unravelled the complex structure of a coat surrounding HIV genome – a finding that would pave way for new treatments for blocking the infection.

During the study, they used a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance and cryoEM, which are standard structural biology tools, to [...] Go to Source

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