By bypassing the immune system altogether and turning muscles into antibody factories, mice are made invulnerable to HIV (Image: MedialRF.com/Superstock.com)
Editorial: “We can win the AIDS war with drugs and vaccines“
HIV doesn’t play by the rules: instead of dodging the immune system it attacks it head on. Now it seems our best hope for a vaccine against the killer virus might also involve tearing up the rule book – by fighting an infection without help from the immune system.
Using this approach, mice can keep HIV at bay even when given 100 times the virus that would be needed to…
