Antibodies that may cut risk of HIV infection better understood

Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

What immune response should a vaccine elicit to prevent HIV infection? Two studies bring scientists closer to answering this question by identifying previously unrecognized attributes of antibodies that appear to have reduced the risk of HIV infection in the only clinical trial to show efficacy, albeit modest, of an experimental vaccine regimen in people.

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