New artificial protein mimics a part of the HIV outer coat

A team of scientists at Duke Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has created an artificial protein coupled with a sugar molecule that mimics a key site on the outer coat of HIV where antibodies can bind to neutralize a wide variety of HIV strains.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/dumc-nap102213.php