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purepedantry | March 29, 2009It's amazing what the kids are up to these days.
This one comes live from Mount Sinai (my present educational residence). Hubner et al., publishing in Science, use an infectious, fluorescent strain of HIV to watch the virus move from one cell to another. Their results are fascinating and may help us develop better ways to treat the disease.
(Full disclaimer: This research was performed in the Chen lab at Mount Sinai where my roommate presently works.)
It's funny how my biases work. I mean, I am not a microbiologist, but here is the bias that I had about how infections like HIV work: I…