Research Images

	Drs. Thomas Folks and Guido Poli discuss their AIDS research.
	Researchers and healthcare workers took precautions when handling potentially infected blood.
	A crystal of the anti-AIDS drug zidovudine (AZT), viewed under polarized light.
	Zidovudine, better known as AZT, was the first antiviral shown to be effective against AIDS.
	Fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) used a laser beam aimed at a stream of cells to measure the number of infected cells.
	Abbott Laboratory's in vitro HTLV-III ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) diagnostic kit.
	Diagram of the polymerase chain reaction test shows how to amplify HIV DNA sequences as a way to diagnose HIV infection in blood samples.

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