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Researchers develop new tool in HIV vaccine fight
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/09/researchers-develop-new-tool-in-hiv-vaccine-fight/US researchers have developed a new test to identify antibodies capable of fighting most strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a breakthrough that could accelerate the hunt for a vaccine.
A report published in the journal Science on Thursday said that scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had studied HIV-infected individuals whose blood had shown “powerful neutralization” qualities of the virus.
The new tool allowed scientists to precisely determine the broadly neutralizing antibodies in a given sample by analyzing the neutralized HIV strains.
The tool — known as neutralization fingerprinting — is a mathematical algorithm that taps into the large pool of data on HIV bNAbs (broadly neutralizing antibodies) generated in recent years.
