25 years after HIV virus discovered, AIDS vaccine effort must go on: Bernstein
"Our genome ... is three billion bases (base pairs) of DNA. This virus is about 10 million bases of DNA. We're a lot smarter than this virus"
- The despair that set in after the failure of the latest effort to develop an AIDS vaccine has given way to renewed determination on the part of the scientific community, says the Canadian scientist leading an international effort to maximize global activity in the field.
As the world gets ready to mark the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS, there is a consensus that work must continue, both to puzzle out how the human immune system responds to infection with the HIV virus and more generally how the immune system works, Dr. Alan Bernstein said in an interview Thursday. Read more
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