Researchers Progress Toward AIDS Vaccine
Rutgers professors Eddy and Gail Ferstandig Arnold found that animals made antibodies that can stop a very diverse set of HIV isolates or varieties. (Photo Nick Romanenko)
Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and their colleagues report on their research progress.
With the support of the National Institutes of Health, the Arnolds and their team have been able to take a piece of HIV that is involved with helping the virus enter cells, put it on the surface of a common cold virus, and then immunize animals with it. They found that the animals made antibodies that can stop a very diverse set of HIV isolates or varieties. (more…)
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