BiomedNews Test turns into promising new weapon against HIV July 20, 2005 admin Stumbled on this item I’d marked back in February to write about (somehow got lost in the avalanche of email–and then clicked a wrong combination of keys and lost the whole post. Sigh. Anyway, Australian scientists discover that the HIV peptide-coated blood cells they wanted to test with, actually had a vaccine effect–greatly boosting immune response in monkeys and mice. New promise and hope for holding HIV and other chronic infections at bay.