HIV Antibody Infusions Show Promise as Treatment for AIDS Virus

Two teams of researchers are reporting progress in the development of an immunotherapy for HIV.  If successful, HIV antibody infusions could offer an alternative treatment for those infected with the AIDS virus.  Antibodies are the body’s frontline soldiers.  When it detects an infection, the immune system activates proteins which try to neutralize the invader. But not everyone infected with HIV can make sufficient numbers of these so-called neutralizing antibodies against ...

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