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Germany Sets Out To Develop Global HIV Cryobank

10-06-2006 · ScienceDaily

The HIV virus still poses unsolved problems. Despite decades of research, no vaccine yet exists. An international project supported by the Gates Foundation, Fraunhofer, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Saarland in Germany has set out to develop a global HIV cryobank.

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