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Vaccines Could End the HIV Pandemic

In COVID-19, Latest News by Precision Vaccinations

Vaccines work by inducing the human immune system to make antibodies that can neutralize a particular pathogen. But doing so for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been challenging, says the U.S. National Institutes of Medicine (NIH).
More than a decade ago, researchers at the Vaccine Research Center of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discovered a class of rare antibodies called broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV that could neutralize many HIV strains at once.
But inducing bnAbs with a vaccine has proven difficult.