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Almighty antibodies? A new wave of antibody-based approaches aims to combat HIV

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His reticence is understandable. After the flop of one HIV vaccine, AIDSVAX, in phase 3 clinical trials, and given the difficulty in the past three decades of finding effective protective antibodies in people, the quest seemed doomed around the turn of the century.

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