Stardate 20010613.2012 (On Screen): This is fantastic, and scary as hell. Researchers using bleeding-edge technology have directly monitored the biochemical process by which HIV invades, takes over and ultimately destroys CD4 cells. It is a totally amazing technical achievement, and astoundingly powerful. But what they revealed is terrifying, because HIV is a very efficient killer indeed. Within 30 minutes of invasion, HIV manages to deactivate over 500 genes, and that's just one of its many tricks.
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