Dec
14
HIV, Cancer May Beat Vaccines by Pretending to Be Sperm
Cancer and the HIV virus may resist vaccines by dressing infected cells in the protein trappings of sperm, tricking bodies into thinking they’re harmless.
The phenomenon, described today by researchers from the University of Missouri and Imperial College of London in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, could help explain why billions of dollars and decades of research have yet to produce a working vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, or most forms of cancer.
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