The February 2000 issue of LIFE features a photograph of the HIV virus in a human skin cell, captured and processed by scientists at the Salk Institute using Applied Precision's DeltaVision® restoration microscopy system.
Image courtesy of Dr. Tom Hope, The Salk Institute.
Scientists at the Salk Institute have developed a method for tagging the HIV virus with a protein so that the virus is visible through a DeltaVision restoration microscopy system. Using a green protein from a glow-in-the-dark jellyfish, the researchers can make the virus show up in contrast to the cell. Thanks to the 3D capabilities of the DeltaVision, scientists can visualize how the virus gets to a cell's nucleus. Researchers hope that understanding how the virus travels will help them figure out how to stop the virus from getting to the nucleus, thereby preventing it from reproducing and infecting other cells.
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