This illustration shows how HIV infects cells.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
A T cell, a type of white blood cell, attacks HIV.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
“What is HIV?” comic created for the Explore Evolution exhibit.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
HIV evolves inside an infected baby. HIV can sometimes pass from an infected mother to her unborn child.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
Mothers can pass HIV to their children. Researchers have learned that the virus can evolve into new forms in a matter of days.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
This illustration shows how HIV invades human cells and releases RNA inside.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
This illustration shows HIV entering human cells.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum and Science Museum of Minnesota/ Adam Wiens and Lonnie Broden/ 2005
Explore Evolution Exhibit, University of Nebraska State Museum
This shows the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
Permission granted for educational use/ University of Nebraska State Museum/ Angie Fox, Illustrator/ 2005
The World of Viruses project is made possible by a Science Education Partnership Award Grant No. R25 RR024267 from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health.
Angie Fox
World of Viruses
This photograph shows a microbiologist conducting an experiment with the influenza virus inside a biological safety cabinet in the laboratory.
Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Taronna Maines, content provider/ Greg Knobloch, photographer/ 2006
