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MIT's one-shot vaccine could deliver robust protection from HIV

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MIT 's one -shot vaccine could deliver robust protection from HIV.

Researchers combined two adjuvants to elicit a significantly better immune response than a vaccine with just one of them.

The new approach caused the dual-adjuvant vaccine to accumulate in the mice's lymph nodes and stay there for a month , during which time their immune systems effectively built up plenty of antibodies against the HIV protein.

This approach could come in handy for formulating protein-based vaccines to protect against influenza and SARS-CoV-2.