Excerpt: "A new study published in the academic journal Nature Communications shows that a lab-made experimental antibody can completely prevent non-human primates from contracting monkey-type HIV.

"Our findings suggest that the monoclonal antibody leronlimab may be a new weapon in the fight against the HIV epidemic," said lead researcher and co-corresponding author Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., a professor at Oregon Health Sciences University who works at the Oregon National Primate Center and the Institute for Vaccines and Gene Therapy."