Tag: AIDS virus
An AIDS Vaccine in Four Years?
by andreas on Oct.08, 2008, under HIV/AIDS
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding from cultured lymphocyte. Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions.
I don’t mean to overemphasize developments in AIDS treatment, but when it involves a possible vaccine for the disease, I’ll make an exception. The UK’s Daily Mail has reported that Luc Montagnier, a French scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of the AIDS virus, predicted that a vaccine for the immune disease would be developed within four years.
Montagnier explained that the treatment would be a “therapeutic” instead of a “preventive” vaccine. Such a vaccine would prevent the AIDS virus from flourishing in the body
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