Two steps forward, one step back
From Seattle, at the 9th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Just a few days after the National Institutes of Health announced it was canceling a large AIDS-vaccine trial, researchers at this meeting announced preliminary results from a new vaccine that appears safe. Although the vaccine probably won’t keep people from getting infected, it could help them fight the infection.
Typically, when viruses enter the body, some of them are taken up by immune cells, chopped into bits, and presented to other cells in the immune system.