HIV Vaccine From Engineered Plants: Mice Form Antibodies Against HIV Protein
Monday, May 18, 2009 - 11:21
in Biology & Nature
Researchers in Sweden have succeeded in changing the genes in plants so they can function as a vaccine against HIV. Through gene modification the plants have acquired the capacity to produce a protein that is part of the virus, and the project has taken a giant step forward in that mice that have been fed the plants have reacted and formed antibodies against the protein.