Science Alert · 27 Oct 2026
One Dose of Experimental Antibody Kept HIV-Like Virus in Remission For 4 Years in a Monkey
HIV can fall silent without leaving the body. Hidden inside immune cells, it can survive treatment and start multiplying again when medication stops. So researchers have started going after the hiding places themselves, with an experimental antibody tested in infant monkeys. Given once alongside early antiviral treatment, it helped keep simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a relative of HIV, from returning for months after medication ended in some animals.
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