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NIH scientists, grantees map possible path to an HIV vaccine

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) In an advance for HIV vaccine research, scientists have for the first time determined how both the virus and a resulting strong antibody response co-evolved in one HIV-infected individual. The findings could help researchers identify which proteins to use in investigational vaccines to induce antibodies capable of preventing  Read More »

Designer Antibodies For HIV

(MedicalNewsToday) An effective vaccine against HIV-1 remains elusive, but one promising strategy focuses on designer antibodies that have much broader potency than most normal, exquisitely specific antibodies. These broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can handle the high mutation rate of HIV particles that makes normal, very specific antibodies useless within a short space of time. A  Read More »

New promise for an HIV vaccine as researchers overcome crucial obstacle

For the first time, researchers were able to stimulate immune cells to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies: a critical step that has eluded researchers for decades but that provides promise for a successful HIV vaccine.

Study of Virus-Killing Bacteria Motion Advances Nanotechnology

Scientists have cracked a 35-year-old mystery about the workings of the natural motors that are serving as models for development of a futuristic genre of synthetic nanomotors that pump therapeutic DNA, RNA or drugs into individual diseased cells. The researchers … Continue reading →

New foot-and-mouth vaccine signals huge advance in global disease control

(MedicalXpress) They have used a new method to produce a vaccine that doesn’t rely on inactivating the live, infectious virus which causes the disease – and is therefore much safer to produce. Instead the vaccine consists of empty virus shells that have been produced synthetically, and are designed to produce an immune response that protects  Read More »

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