Progress in the rational design of an AIDS vaccine
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Progress in the rational design of an AIDS vaccine.
Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) has a high degree of genetic and antigenic diversity that has impeded the development of an effective vaccine using traditional methods. We are attempting to develop an AIDS vaccine by employing strategies that include structural biology and computational modelling, in an effort to develop immunogens capable of eliciting neutralizing antibodies of the requ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0096