Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV | ummid.com

Breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV | ummid.com
"Our work helped establish that these B-cells in breast milk can produce HIV-neutralizing antibodies, so enhancing the response or getting more mucosal B-cells to produce those helpful antibodies would be useful, and this is a possible route to explore for HIV-1 vaccine development," Permar said, according to a university statement.