How HIV Infects Gut for First Time Ever Decoded

High-resolution electron microscopy has been utilized by researchers to look at HIV infection within the actual tissue of an infected organism, providing perhaps the most detailed characterization yet of HIV infection in the gut. Lead author Mark Ladinsky, an electron microscope scientist at Caltech worked with Pamela Bjorkman, Max Delbruck Professor of Biology at Caltech, used a technique called electron tomography, in which a tissue sample is embedded in plastic ...