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Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has said.
Professor David Baltimore, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), believes the battle is too important to give up on, despite some saying a vaccine will never be found.
"This is a huge challenge because to control HIV immunologically the scientific community has to beat out nature, do something that nature, with its advantage of four billion years of evolution, has not been able to do," he said.
Attempts to control the virus through antibodies or by boosting the body's immune system have ended in failure.
This has left the vaccine community depressed because they can see no hopeful way of success, he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7246117.stm
Professor David Baltimore, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), believes the battle is too important to give up on, despite some saying a vaccine will never be found.
"This is a huge challenge because to control HIV immunologically the scientific community has to beat out nature, do something that nature, with its advantage of four billion years of evolution, has not been able to do," he said.
Attempts to control the virus through antibodies or by boosting the body's immune system have ended in failure.
This has left the vaccine community depressed because they can see no hopeful way of success, he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7246117.stm
