Where's The Beef Today?
Creative Commons - U.S.D.A. Agriculture Agricultural Press Release - Cows are leaving the pasture and entering the field of HIV vaccine research. Devin Sok of the Scripps Institute and Waithaka Mwangi of Texas A&M University discovered how to produce powerful, HIV-blocking antibodies in cows in a matter of weeks – a process that usually takes years in humans. These unexpected findings illuminate new pathways for HIV vaccine research. "One approach to a preventive HIV vaccine involves trying to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies in healthy people, but so far the experiments have been unsuccessful, in both human and animal studies," said Sok, the study's first author. "This experiment demon...