no treatment can yet completely eradicate HIV once it has taken hold. But promising results from a recent clinical trial suggest that broadly neutralizing antibody therapy (bNAbs) may be able to ...

An antibody dubbed N6 neutralized 98 percent of HIV strains tested, according to a preclinical study described in Immunity this week (November 15). N6, which was first isolated from an HIV-positive ...

N6 is a newly discovered antibody at NIAID. It has evolved a unique mode of binding that depends less on a variable area of the HIV envelope known as the V5 region and focuses more on conserved ...

“It is a very powerful tool that depends on three basic things: sensitivity, antigen-antibody affinity and specificity. This is where HIV comes in, because HIV is so pernicious that it mutates so ...