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ANTI-HIV VACCINES |
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Using our techniques to exploit a recently discovered ‘Achilles heel’ on the virus.
Despite over 20 years of intensive research, no effective HIV/AIDS vaccine has yet been found, mainly because of the phenomenal capacity of HIV to change its outer structure by mutation and elude the effects of the vaccine.
A group at the prestigious Vaccine Research Consortium the National Institutes of Health in the USA has recently found a potential Achilles heel: a structure that HIV cannot change without losing to infect. They have invited Mintaka scientists to contribute their specialized techniques to a collaboration aimed at developing safe and effective new vaccines, and work has begun.
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Molecular representation of the Achilles heel structure of the HIV virus. [T. Zhou and colleagues] |
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