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Souped-up antibody fends off HIV

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Targeted search yields proteins that neutralize nearly all HIV strains.

An antibody that can block more than 90% of strains of HIV-1, the most common form of the disease, has been discovered using a method for fishing specific proteins out of the blood. The findings, published today in Science1,2, could be used for vaccine design, researchers say.

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  1. Wu, X. et al. Science doi:10.1126/science.1187659 (2010).

  2. Zhou, T. et al. Science doi:10.1126/science.1192819 (2010).

  3. Walker, L. M. et al. Science 326, 285-289 (2009).

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Ledford, H. Souped-up antibody fends off HIV. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.341

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