Watching HIV replicate in a living animal is now possible
Doctors might soon be able to see the places where HIV replicates in the human body, if a technique used in macaques also works in people. A new method for imaging HIV in living macaques is described today in Nature Methods, a feat that had not been previously achieved in large, living animals. The finding is a big deal, because it means that researchers might one day be able to see — and selectively target — breeding grounds of HIV in people whose infection is undetectable in blood.
Source:: The Verge
