New Drug 'Astonishingly Effective' Shield Against AIDS Virus in Monkeys - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 19 Feb 15Scientists said Wednesday a new drug tested on monkeys provided an astonishingly effective shield against an animal version of the AIDS virus, a major gain in the quest for an HIV vaccine. Macaque monkeys given the drug were able to fend off high, repeated doses of the simian version of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), they reported in the journal Nature.