Computing a Cure for HIV: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists Understand and Treat the Virus
Category: SCIENCE
Scientists harness the power of thousands of computer processors simultaneously to better understand how the HIV virus interacts with the cells it infects, to discover or design new drugs that can attack the virus at its weak spots and even to use genetic information about the exact variants of the virus to develop patient-specific treatments.
By Aaron Dubrow, ContributorMedia officer for the National Science Foundation covering adv..., 2014-06-20