The David J. Senser CDC Museum is a part of the CDC headquarter in Atlanta, Georgia. This museum showcase many past achievements of the CDC. During this current political climate where science is often undermined and underfunded, I felt a dire need to highlight the importance of government agencies like CDC in protecting not only […]
Currently, there is still no cure of HIV and AIDS. The infection can be treated and prevented. There many drug design proposal with great promise. However, prevention options is still very narrow in comparison to the diverse genetic phylogeny of HIV subtypes. HIV of different subtypes have different main routes of transmission. Therefore, prevention methods […]
HIV approaches the cell membrane of the human cell, on which exists the CD4 and CCR5 receptor proteins. The lipid-layer of the HIV virus will attach to these receptors, fuses, and enable the virus to inject its content into the human cell. Once its content, single stranded RNA, finds a home in the cytoplasm, HIV […]
HIV virus exists as a cone-shaped virion with a diameter of approximately 100 nanometer. Its shape would be classified as a complex virus with much flexibility in symmetry. This is an enveloped virus which means it possesses a lipid bilayer. We mentioned in class that a lipid layer that comes with being an enveloped virus […]
