| 25 Years Later: The AIDS Vaccine Search Goes On
Watkins, David I.
Scientific American, November 2008, v299, #5, pp69-76
This article discusses the development of a vaccine for HIV and reviews the background on the invention and function of vaccines. The author provides a history of attempted HIV vaccines, noting the reasons for each vaccine's failure. Future research projects are also discussed, including studies into the behavior of HIV in order to discover new strategies for vaccine development.
David I. Watkins investigates the biology of immunity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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H10/01-09, Posted January 7, 2009
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