To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red). In an immature virus particle, the matrix proteins form a lose lattice ...

Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This transmission electron microscopy image shows HIV viral particles (yellow ...

like these HIV particles budding on the surface of a T cell. Now a new type of electron microscope, a tunnelling electron microscope, has even made it possible to see the arrangement of atoms.

HIV-1 particles are released from infected ... They used the latest cryo-electron microscopes to image virus particles, and then used computational image analysis to derive very detailed 3D ...

the onset of AIDS in HIV-infected individuals can be delayed or prevented. Cryo-electron microscopy: cryos in Greek: cold; biological samples (e.g. purified proteins or cells) are shock-frozen in ...