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Burt Dorman, a researcher, has been trying for the past 30 years to get funding for a killed-virus HIV vaccine (i.e. infect folks with denatured HIV and see if

Burt Dorman, a researcher, has been trying for the past 30 years to get funding for a killed-virus HIV vaccine (i.e. infect folks with denatured HIV and see if they can get further infected by real HIV). Only recently is this approach being tried by others. This reminds me of how certain anti-aging researchers have been struggling to get funding for their own "brute-force" approaches.

kgc 8y ago
Which anti-aging researchers and what brute force methods?
- ogennadi 8y ago
  Aubrey de Grey at SENS. IIRC they're trying to clear out age-related damage rather than fully understand the mechanisms of aging first (as more mainstream researchers are doing).