One Step Closer?
Volunteers face DNA needle in vaccine test
smh.com.au
More than 40 healthy volunteers will be injected with DNA from the AIDS virus in Australia’s first human trial of a new kind of vaccine, to begin in Sydney next August.
The hope is that it will work in the same way that it has in monkeys and stimulate the volunteers’ immune systems to make white blood cells, known as killer T cells, that can find and destroy HIV-infected cells.
A new approach to vaccination using DNA with potential uses against other diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, &c.). Fingers crossed.
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