Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV
Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 12:56
in Health & Medicine
A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using gene transfer technology that produces molecules that block infection, the scientists protected monkeys from infection by a virus closely related to HIV -the simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV -that causes AIDS in rhesus monkeys.