Tag: Pedro Reche

  • Campus & Community

    Study: Hope alive for AIDS vaccine

    Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have prompted human immune cells to attack HIV protein fragments, showing that the long-sought vaccine to protect against AIDS is still a possibility. Researchers using advanced data-analysis programs identified five protein fragments from HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – that promote a…

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  • Health

    Study offers new hope for preventive vaccine for AIDS

    New research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists suggests that it may one day be possible to immunize healthy individuals against HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. In a study published in the online journal Medical Immunology, investigators led by Dana-Farber’s Pedro Reche, Ph.D., and Derin Keskin, Ph.D., upend the long-held view that human immune system…

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