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 ...
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Gene Transfer Technology May Lead To HIV Vaccine
Monday, May 18, 2009
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AIDS,
Clinical trial,
Harvard Medical School,
HIV,
HIV vaccine,
Immune system,
Simian immunodeficiency virus,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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HIV in focus
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Labels:
AIDS,
AIDS pandemic,
Antiretroviral drug,
Health,
HIV,
HIV vaccine,
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,
Reverse transcriptase inhibitor
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EVERY minute, six people are infected with HIV - the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS. (See http://www.iavi.org/Pages/home.aspx) And in the 28 years since scientists identified the virus, it has become one of the most devastating pandemics ever recorded in human history. With more than 25 million lives lost since 1981, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, which will be ...
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