A natural approach for HIV vaccine

Since HIV was first recognized in the early 1980s, scientists have tried and failed to develop a vaccine based on a handful of “super antibodies” that so far have been impossible to produce in humans. Now new research detailing the dynamic, natural immune response in “slow-progressing” HIV patients suggests that an effective HIV vaccine may come from a shotgun approach targeting several parts of the virus rather than a magic bullet targeting only one.

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