UGA student makes music from HIV

A graduate student at the University of Georgia has used the genome for HIV to create music.

Alexandra Pajak used the National Institutes of Health's record of the retrovirus' genome -- and the patterns produced by the virus in infected cells -- to compose music, according to an article on the website of Scientific American.

Pajak is a grad student in clinical social work and composes in her spare time.  She lets the virus script music by assigning pitches to nucleotides and to the amino acids manufactured when HIV enters a human cell, she told the magazine.