Moderna set to begin human trials of AIDS vaccine this week

[TexasTowelie]

Biotech company Moderna, which developed one of the two most effective COVID-19 vaccines last year, plans to begin human trials soon for a new AIDS vaccine, according to multiple news sources.
According to information posted last week to the National Institute of Health’s clinical trial database, Moderna is looking for 56 HIV-negative people, ages 18-50, to participate in the trials set to begin this week (Thursday, Aug. 19) and conclude in the spring of 2023.

Moderna’s AIDS vaccines passed through Phase 1 testing for safety, involving just a few human volunteers, earlier this year. Phase II will test the vaccine’s efficacy as compared to other preventative treatments now available, such as PrEP.

Unlike live or inactive vaccines, mRNA vaccines do not contain parts of a virus. Instead this class of vaccine is designed to create proteins that trigger an immune response. This approach eliminates some potential drawbacks — live vaccines must be kept cool or they will spoil, which can hamper distribution — and lets manufacturers mass produce vaccine doses. The mRNA vaccines also give a person’s body the ability to possibly recognize new variants of a virus.

https://dallasvoice.com/moderna-set-to-begin-human-trials-of-aids-vaccine-this-week/
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[mahina]

1. This is wonderful news

Thank you

[TexasTowelie]

2. Agreed, and somewhat sad that a long-awaited story

is buried by headlines about COVID.

[ColinC]

4. Tragic, really.

So many people lost their loved ones to that disease and it is still written off as a footnote in a lot ways almost in the same way that it was dismissed in the eighties and early nineties.

[mahina]

5. Not here

Remembering, and so thankful now.

[ColinC]

6. When I was about 11 or 12 years old, my mother was a case nurse for an AIDs foundation

She was taking me to school when a picture of a little girl -a few years younger than me fell out her purse. I said, "Mom, who is that?" She said, "that's... a client of mine." In complete denial, I said "why is she a client?" She looked at me, matter of factly and just said "figure it out." My heart sank for that little girl and everybody who had to live and die with that disease. And it still does...

[ColinC]

3. Wow just wow

When I was growing up in the nineties, my mother was a case nurse for the greater part of the decade who saw her patients die almost daily from that horrible disease. Most were young and some were children. I really am overjoyed by this news.

[multigraincracker]

7. CHRIPR break thru

May be a cure for every thing including the common cold.

[NH Ethylene]

8. This is amazing!

I'm surprised we didn't know this was in the pipeline.