Oh my god... i'm almost done! Two of my colleagues finished reading it today and provided me with some advice, which I appreciate a lot. Writing is weird (especially in French); you can reread you a million time without spotting errors or confusing paragraphs. External advice before terminal evaluation is therefore always nice to have ;) Too bad this site doesn't offer pictures hosting, I managed to create some very nice pictures of HIV-1 depicting structure of the virus... all in French, obviously ;) It's sad but good art in science is very rare; everything seems to be done with circles and boxes in MS paint. And the concept of scale is everything but implemented, which can often lead to misinterpretation. Photoshop courses should be the norm in science! :) Now let's get this finished, once and for all...