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A headline that would've been absolutely unthinkable 10 or 20 years ago. We live in the future.
by dgudkov 5y ago
A headline that would've been absolutely unthinkable 10 or 20 years ago. We live in the future.
- est31 5y agoNot really. HIV vaccine candidates as well as trials for them have existed for decades. One of the earlier ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDSVAX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDSVAX The issue is just that the trials have all failed. Since the earliest vaccines, a lot has been learned about HIV and its interactions with humans, which allows advanced approaches like this one, targeting parts of the virus that we know are highly conserved.
- uniqueid 5y agoI've been hearing about upcoming cures to horrible diseases two or three times a month for several decades and the number that pan out is a rounding error. The only noteworthy development I can think of over the past decade is a 'cure' for peanut allergies (and when I looked into it closer, it turns out it's not even a complete cure). There's apparently neither any incentive nor stomach for humanity to be realistic about how much progress we really make, which, though considerable, is not breathtaking.