A month ago, I returned to Australia from a trip to Burma. After four weeks in the country, I’d acclimatised to the culture, cuisine and people. My conditioning was so complete that on my return, I was…
In order to drag themselves onto land, fish-like creatures needed limbs.
Thierrry
In the late Devonian period, roughly 365 million years ago, fish-like creatures started venturing from shallow waters onto land.
Among the various adaptations associated with the switch to land life was…
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte.
CDC/ C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus
Despite three decades of research, an HIV vaccine remains elusive. The main reason for this is the virus’s uncanny ability to evolve resistance to immune control, so understanding how the virus adapts…
