HUMAN immune proteins that coat HIV may help transport the virus throughout
the body, a new study of infected patients suggests. The results add to fears
that some AIDS vaccines might promote rather than prevent infection.
Much of the research on HIV has focused on T cells. The virus grabs hold of a
protein on these cells called CD4 and uses it to break inside and start
replicating. But test tube experiments earlier this year by Susan Moir and her
colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases near
Washington DC and other researchers suggested that B cells,…
