<p>From FSU webpages...</p>
<p>Groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable images of the AIDS virus that are being used to spur the development of vaccines to fight the deadly disease.</p>
<p>Never before generated in such intricate detail, the three-dimensional images reveal the virus and the protein spikes on its surface that allow it to bind and fuse with human immune cells.</p>
<p>Findings from this AIDS research, published in the journal Nature, could boost the development of vaccines that will thwart infection by targeting and crippling the sticky HIV-1 spike proteins. In fact, said principal investigator and FSU Professor Kenneth H. Roux, at least two laboratories already are crafting vaccine candidates based on preliminary results uncovered by his team of structural biologists.</p>
<p>Never before generated in such intricate detail, the super-sized images of the virus and its viral spikes have given researchers their first good look at the pathogen's complex molecular surface architecture that facilitates the infection process. </p>
<p>See: <a href="http://www.fsu.edu/rd2005/indexTOFStory.html?lead.hiv%5B/url%5D">http://www.fsu.edu/rd2005/indexTOFStory.html?lead.hiv</a></p>