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This amazing image is crystallographic data of the AIDS virus actually attacking an immune cell, and they hope that the data will help them create an anti-AIDS vaccine. In studying the data the scientists believe that they may have found a spot on the outside of the disease which may be vulnerable to antibodies that would block it from even attacking human cells to begin with. While there are a couple of vaccines currently in human trials, the researchers believe that this might be their best hope at making a vaccine that would work for everyone.