Wits part of study that discovers a unique feature of HIV that helps to create antibodies

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

Wits researchers have played a pivotal role in an AIDS study published today in the journal, Nature Medicine, which describes how a unique change in the outer covering of the virus found in two HIV infected South African women enabled them to make potent antibodies which are able to kill up to 88% of HIV types from around the world.

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