Antibody Building: Does Tapping the Body's Other Immune System Hold the Key to Fending Off HIV Infection?

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified long-sought and elusive broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV in a pair of papers published in the July 9 issue of Science . These proteins produced by the innate immune system are crucial for creating a preventive vaccine , and could also have therapeutic uses developed in the coming years or decades. [More] HIV - National Institutes of Health - Antibody - Immune system - Health

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