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As our feature story this week makes clear, the fight against HIV/AIDS is far from over. But researchers from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have made significant progress developing a vaccine for the virus, and the Gates Foundation has spent more than $2.2 billion funding the science.
Tests on lab mice have opened up a new path towards a vaccine against HIV, one of the most frustrating quests in the 30-year history of AIDS, scientists reported.
Genetically modified mice fought back the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after they had been injected with genes to make antibodies, the first line of defense in the immune system, the report said in the journal Nature.
