Finding an effective, safe HIV vaccine is still an ongoing struggle for scientists, but a new, supercomputer-aided discovery is offering a new hope. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh were able to accurately map the four million atoms that make up the HIV capsid (a protein shell that contains the virus's genetic material), and this new knowledge may help find new ways to battle the virus and stop it from reproducing so rampantly. "The capsid is critically important for HIV replication," said senior author Peijun Zhang from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "Knowing its structure in detail could lead us to new drugs that can treat or prevent the infection."
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