Novel HIV Vaccine Prevents Disease in Monkeys

US researchers are calling it a "Big Deal." Next year, human clinical trials could begin on a novel AIDS treatment that alters DNA, turning cells into HIV fighters. The treatment has completely protected monkeys from a primate version of the immune disorder. Researchers are engineering healthy muscle cells to induce them to crank out genetic instructions that could potentially neutralize HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in humans. Scientists at Scripps Research...

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