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Article: IAVI: 2 New Antibodies Found to Cripple HIV
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- September 10, 2009
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Wireless News
09-10-2009
IAVI: 2 New Antibodies Found to Cripple HIV
Type: News
Researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), at The Scripps Research Institute, and at the biotechnology companies Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences have discovered two new antibodies to HIV that reveal what may be an Achilles heel on the virus, the group announced.
They published their work in Science this week.
The group noted that researchers will now try to exploit the newfound vulnerability on the virus to craft novel approaches to designing an AIDS vaccine. Moreover, the global collaboration and process that led to the discovery of the two new broadly ...