Antibody Discovered for 91% of HIV Strains

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U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered.

Looking closely at the strongest antibody, they have detailed exactly what part of the virus it targets and how it attacks that site. Together with recent research into how to make animals produce antibodies, the new findings constitute a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine.

The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally. Researchers screened 25 million of his cells to find 12 that produced the antibodies.

Now the trick will be for scientists to develop a vaccine or other methods to make anyone's body produce them.

That effort "will require work," said Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was a leader of the research. "We're going to be at this for a while" before any benefit is seen in the clinic, he said.

The research was published Thursday in two papers in the online edition of the journal Science, 10 days before the opening of the large International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where prevention science is expected to take center stage.
 

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Good stuff

Hopefully soon they can make it happen.

Now we just need a cure for cancer, genital warts, the common cold, and so many other things!
 

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Very encouraging. If we can find a way to cure viruses such as these it makes it seem possible that curing cancer could happen in our lifetimes. I hope it is the case.

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Good stuff

Hopefully soon they can make it happen.

Now we just need a cure for cancer, genital warts, the common cold, and so many other things!

But especially genital warts.
 

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