{"id":25138,"date":"2016-04-28T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/researchers-identify-potential-hiv-vaccine-possibility-with-looped-antibodies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:15","slug":"researchers-identify-potential-hiv-vaccine-possibility-with-looped-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/researchers-identify-potential-hiv-vaccine-possibility-with-looped-antibodies","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Identify Potential HIV Vaccine Possibility With \u2018Looped\u2019 Antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-identify-potential-hiv-vaccine-possibility-with-looped-antibodies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are now one step closer to neutralizing HIV.<\/p>\n<p>In a study conducted at Vanderbilt University and published in <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/03\/30\/1518405113.abstract?sid=c0d2d6b0-cc0d-4608-bcf6-59026604cfcc\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/03\/30\/1518405113.abstract?sid=c0d2d6b0-cc0d-4608-bcf6-59026604cfcc\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>, researchers isolated antibodies with a loop-like structure that binds tightly to HIV and disables it. Unlike traditional vaccines, which jump-start an immune response by exposing the patient to a pathogen, this newly discovered method could work even in people who have <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-04-potent-antibodies-hiv.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-04-potent-antibodies-hiv.html\">not previously been exposed to<\/a> by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Using computer modeling, the researchers identified the amino acid sequences that bound most tightly to HIV and re-engineered them in an optimal sequence that simulated vaccination.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2016-04-07\/researchers-identify-potential-hiv-vaccine-possibility-with-looped-antibodies?src=usn_fb\">http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2016&#45;04&#45;07\/resea...src=usn_fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are now one step closer to neutralizing HIV. In a study conducted at Vanderbilt University and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers isolated antibodies with a loop-like structure that binds tightly to HIV and disables it. Unlike traditional vaccines, which jump-start an immune response by exposing the patient to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67614,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions\/67614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}