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Antibodies advance the search for a cure

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Efforts to make a prophylactic HIV vaccine have identified monoclonal antibodies that potently suppress viral replication. Studies in monkeys show that these reagents effectively treat HIV infection. See Article p.224 & Letter p.277

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Figure 1: Differences between conventional ART and mAb therapy.

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  1. Louis J. Picker is at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA.,

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  2. Steven G. Deeks is in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110, USA.,

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Picker, L., Deeks, S. Antibodies advance the search for a cure. Nature 503, 207–208 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12703

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