Common ingredient offers AIDS protection

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cheap ingredient used in ice cream, cosmetics and found in breast milk helps protect monkeys against infection with a virus similar to AIDS and might work to protect women against the virus, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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