title: Cellular Defense Enzyme Drives Exceptionally High Rate of Mutation in HIV.
abstract: HIV-1 is already known to have an extremely fast mutation rate, but a new study shows it to be more than two orders of magnitude higher than previously believed, and that this is largely due to host cytidine deaminases. Read the Research Article.
authors.affiliation: Freelance Science Writer, Sherborn, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D059645:Mutation Rate