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Genetic approach shows bright promise against AIDS

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Laura S. Marshall, [email protected]

The immunological battle against AIDS could someday be won in our genes – with a little help from a few glow-in-the-dark cats. A new genome-based immunization strategy from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., could help fight feline AIDS and even illuminate ways to combat human diseases, including HIV/AIDS, which has killed more than 30 million people. There is no effective vaccine on the horizon. Each year, millions of cats suffer and die from feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which causes AIDS in cats the same way HIV does in people: by depleting the body’s...Read full article

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    Published: November 2011
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