Researchers at the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Inc. announced yesterday that one of their experimental AIDS vaccines is able to protect monkeys from progressing to the damaging stage of the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of virus, raising hopes that ...

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding ...

Harvard AIDS researchers working with monkeys say the virus overcame an experimental vaccine by changing a single gene, killing one of the animals. Scientists said the disappointment does not mean ...

Researchers found that PD-1-enhanced DNA vaccination can induce sustained virus-specific CD8+ T cell immunity in an AIDS monkey model. The vaccinated monkeys remained free of AIDS for six years and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of the virus, raising hopes that ...

A single shot of antiretroviral drugs protected lab monkeys from the AIDS virus for weeks, according to two US trials released on Tuesday that open the way to tests on humans. In separate work, two ...

WASHINGTON -- Like a general whose direct attacks aren't working, scientists are now trying to outflank the HIV/AIDS virus. Unsuccessful at developing vaccines that the cause the body's natural immune ...