23/04/03

Monkey puzzles in AIDS vaccine research

By: Jon Cohen

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<p>The number of AIDS vaccines moving through the pipeline toward clinical trials has increased over recent years.<BR><BR>But significant scientific and operational challenges remain, not least because a slew of experiments in monkeys — the favoured model for testing vaccine strategies — has raised questions about most of the vaccine approaches now being pursued.<BR><BR>As a result, some scientists fear that none of the vaccines now in human trials will work.<BR><BR>Reference: <em>Science</em> 296, 2325 (2002)<BR><BR><a  href="http://www.aidscience.com/Science/2325.html" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/tracking/external/'+this.href);" rel="noopener noreferrer">Link to full feature article</A></p>

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The number of AIDS vaccines moving through the pipeline toward clinical trials has increased over recent years.

But significant scientific and operational challenges remain, not least because a slew of experiments in monkeys — the favoured model for testing vaccine strategies — has raised questions about most of the vaccine approaches now being pursued.

As a result, some scientists fear that none of the vaccines now in human trials will work.

Reference: Science 296, 2325 (2002)

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