A natural approach for HIV vaccine
Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 11:29
in Health & Medicine
For 25 years, researchers have tried and failed to develop an HIV vaccine, primarily by focusing on a small number of engineered 'super antibodies' to fend off the virus before it takes hold. So far, these magic bullet antibodies have proved impossible to produce in people. Now, in research published 15 March online by Nature, scientists at The Rockefeller University have laid out a new approach. They have identified a diverse team of antibodies in 'slow-progressing' HIV patients whose coordinated pack hunting knocks down the virus just as well as their super-antibody cousins fighting solo...
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