“Scientists have shown what happens when an infection-fighting antibody attacks a gap in HIV’s formidable defences … They have published an atomic-level image in Nature showing the antibody, b12, attacking part of a protein on surface of the virus … HIV avoids attack by constantly mutating, but this protein segment is a weak spot because it remains stable … ‘NIH researchers and their colleagues have revealed a gap in HIV’s armour and have thereby opened a new avenue to meeting that challenge.’ “

From BBC News, here.

Posted Thursday, February 15th, 2007 @ 2:50 am
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