
40 years of HIV
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Importance of Vaccination for HIV
HIV is so difficult for the body to find and could it even be a problem for treatment drugs as well? The main problem isn't so much that HIV can mutate around immune response although it does do that but the immune system can respond in kind. It's archived itself within cells some of which are being maintained as a population or decades if not the entirety of someone's life. But now Julie Mceroth at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Washington has developed a new way to do it. She's got what we can best describe as a molecular meatball comprising a particle that has sticking out from its surface multiple copies of the lynch pin part of the viral coat. Because this
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