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Scripps Research Institute

HIV

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The new work shows the immune system can be prompted to mimic and accelerate a rare natural process during which antibodies slowly evolve to become better and better at targeting the constantly mutating HIV virus. Shown here is the molecule eOD-GT8 60mer, used in the team's "reductionist strategy."

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