ucsd researchers

If the battle against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is a chess match, then new research published today gives new insight into one of the virus' most important moves.The findings, by University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Michael Simpson and Roy Dar, with colleague Leor Weinberger who led the research at the University of California-San Diego, reveal information about how a critical genetic switch in the virus operates.