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'Humanized' mice to boost AIDS vaccine research
May 13 2007, Irani

What makes studying AIDS difficult is its limitation to humans and macaque monkeys only. So, the scientists up with their arms to find a cure for the disease have developed a “humanized” animal to provide a model for testing treatments!

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