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40 years of HIV

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The T Cell Response to the HIV Vaccine

The vaccine is a particle and that particle is displaying a part of the HIV envelope, but in multiple copies up to 60 different copies of it. By having all those copies and the fact that they're displayed in a way that it's going to ignite that really early process is key. And then also the molecule that allows that to be held together as a particle is also being seen. And so that also stimulates the T cell response as well.

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