Word: ruprecht
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...researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Medicine Ruth Ruprecht, tested the vaccine on eight newborn monkeys and 16 adults, according to data published in the February issue of Nature Medicine...
...With these results," Ruprecht said, "the whole approach is under question...
Previous experiments led researchers to believe that the most promising vaccine to fight HIV would use a weakened virus, but this idea now has to be revised, Ruprecht said...
...saliva--is sufficient to be passed on through the mouth or throat. One likely route: the tonsils, which contain large numbers of the kinds of lymph cells favored by HIV and SIV. "We're not saying that oral exposure is more dangerous than anal exposure," notes Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana-Farber. "What we're saying is that oral sex is not safe...
...Ruprecht and her colleagues are continuing to seek possible therapies by studying the role of the immune system in mothers and infants. "We have a tool to study therapy which will give protections to the fetus," she said...