Mount Sinai researchers track HIV in real time as it infects and spreads in living tissue

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) By watching brightly glowing HIV-infected immune cells move within mice, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have shown how infected immune cells latch onto an uninfected sister cell to directly transmit newly minted viral particles. The research, published online today in Cell Reports, challenges the long-held perception that the primary route of HIV infection of immune cells is from free-floating viral particles...