MrRobin asked: 1)Has the HIV virus actually been isolated? Yes. The "gold standard" for virus isolation is to have an infectious molecular clone of the virus. There are now several dozend infectious molecular clones of HIV-1, HIV-2 and a few each of FIVs from housecats, lions and pumas, a few each of EIAV, BIVs and other
lentiviruses from other mammalian species. 2)...