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The AIDS virus, molecule by molecule

Never before has the Human Immunodeficiency Virus been represented in such detail. Members of the Russian company Visual Science have used information from more than a hundred studies to create this three-dimensional model of the AIDS virus. Seventeen proteins with their true structure have been represented. And on the outer membrane 8 lipids in the same proportion as they appear in the virus; 160,000 molecules. And all this using a code of two colors: orange, proteins of the virus itself, and gray, stolen from the host.

With this work they have won the first prize in the illustration section of the 2010 Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.