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If caught early, the skin cancer called malignant melanoma is curable. If not, it's almost always fatal. But a new treatment under study at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., appears at least to prolong lives. Researchers injected patients with a tuberculosis vaccine mixed with melanoma...
Neutralizing HIV is especially tough because its coat is laced with sugar molecules that shield it from the human immune system. Some viruses, such as the one that causes polio, have no sugar in their protein coat. Others, like flu viruses, have only a little. It is no coincidence that...
Undaunted, researchers are testing about a dozen experimental vaccines. After the trials have been thoroughly evaluated, the most promising prototypes will be chosen -- probably in the next two years -- for testing to determine if they can stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies capable of blocking HIV infection. The trouble...
In the meantime, Dr. Robert Redfield of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington and his colleagues are trying to develop a vaccine that helps people who are already infected. By injecting a slightly modified form of the virus' protein coat, the Army researchers hope to kick-start...
The Pasteur Institute is currently testing a promising new AIDS vaccine, but Montagnier travels around the world more and more these days, a much sought- after participant in international conferences. Whenever he returns to Paris, he goes back to his mycoplasmas -- feeling, as he puts it, "like a cat that...