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Nature 435, 1159 (30 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351159b; Published online 29 June 2005

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The New York-based, non-profit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is to partner pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in an effort to develop an AIDS vaccine.The partners say they will pursue a vaccine based on an adenovirus, which is stripped of its infectious genes, focusing on those that naturally infect chimpanzees.