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HIV Vaccine.

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  • 18-12-2002 3:46pm
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    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992161
    Maize genetically modified to contain a key protein found on the surface of the monkey form of HIV has been created by US company ProdiGene.
    <snip>

    The protein - SIV gp120 - is the simian form of a protein that will be used in an HIV vaccine trial on people in Thailand later in 2002.

    Now from the American NIAID

    http://www.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/releases/phase3hiv.htm
    Until recently, NIAID and USAMRMC had proposals underway to begin large-scale, phase III HIV vaccine efficacy trials in the near future. Both trials were to test similar “prime-boost” vaccine combinations (a canarypox-virus-based primer vaccine followed by a gp120 subunit booster vaccine), although the vaccines were slightly different, the trials were designed to answer different questions and were to take place in different populations.

    Obviously good news, still not a workable vaccine (as far as I can tell), but the fundamentals of having a dispersable and engestiable vaccine seems to be a plausable possibility if one takes the evidence posed at face value.


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