5 ms·
Human trials for HIV/AIDS vaccine making steady progress
- ekianjo 14y ago"Steady progress" - just to make someone not familiar with the pharma industry gets this correctly : this means only the safety part of the drug has been proven, but there is no efficacy proof so far, so technically speaking we are very far away from a commercial vaccine. Probably 5-7 years more work ahead, assuming nothing goes wrong. And efficacy may not be a binary scenario, depending on the virus strains, since HIV is known to mutate a lot. Don't hold your breath, even if this is encouraging.
- z92 14y agoI remember reading the same headline in the 90s. That the headline reads still the same 15 years later, tells us how little progress we made on this side.
- oneandoneis2 14y agoWhatever happened to that drug that just killed all cells infected by a virus? That sounded like a promising cure for everything from HIV to the common cold.. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html - this one!