New artificial protein mimics part of HIV outer coat

Reported during the week of Oct. 21, 2013, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the finding provides a potential new strategy in vaccine development to elicit the broadly neutralizing antibodies considered essential for long-lasting protection from the ever-changing HIV virus.

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