Antibodies that ‘wait and pounce’ generated by promising HIV vaccine candidate

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An HIV vaccine candidate has proved it can guide B-cells, the part of the immune system that makes antibodies, into being able to produce broadly neutralising antibodies (bnAbs) with the ability to block the entry into T-cells of many strains of HIV. Dr Wilton Williams of Duke University described the vaccine candidate in a plenary talk at July’s 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2023).

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