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Ashwanth C. Francis

@ashwanthfrancis.bsky.social

Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences Imaging All things Viruses @Florida State University

Ashwanth C. Francis @ashwanthfrancis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🔬 Excited to share the most recent BREAKTHROUGH from our lab, which overcomes a longstanding technical bottleneck in HIV-1 research and provides new insights into how infectious viral cores are assembled. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ashwanth C. Francis @ashwanthfrancis.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Our affinity capture method for: Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imaging and Correlative Cryo-Electron Tomography to Study Structural Changes of the HIV-1 Capsid | ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Is out!!

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Time-Resolved Fluorescence Imaging and Correlative Cryo-Electron Tomography to Study Structural Changes of the HIV-1 Capsid

The conical HIV-1 capsid protects the internal viral genome and facilitates the infection of target cells. Highly potent antivirals, such as the clinically approved drug Lenacapavir (LEN), block HIV-1...

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