Another Step Towards An HIV Vaccine
- A sixteen year study published online Nov. 4 in the journal Science has revealed yet another finding for HIV-AIDS research.
“We found that, of the three billion nucleotides in the human genome, just a handful make the difference between those who can stay healthy in spite of HIV infection and those who, without treatment, will develop AIDS,” Dr. Bruce Walker, said in a Ragon Institute/Broad Institute news release.
“HIV is slowly revealing its secrets, and this is yet another,” Walker said. “Knowing how an effective immune response against HIV is generated is an important step toward replicating that response with a vaccine. We have a long way to go before translating this into a treatment for infected patients and a vaccine to prevent infection, but we are an important step closer.”
