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by icinnamon 13y ago
Ian from the Immunity Project (YC W14) team here! Happy to answer any questions you may have.
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Starting our AMA now! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w29dx/we_are_creating...
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Our Immunity Project Science team, led by Dr. Reid Rubsamen, developed the vaccine. The $500K pays for our final experiment before we begin our Phase I Clinical Trials. We've already conducted over a decade of research and two years
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Thanks, jjoe! We really appreciate your support.
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Instead of using standard vaccine practices (a dead/damaged/live version of the virus) to train your immune system, we are using these synthetic entities called microspheres. They are made of the same material as internal sutures
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We're absolutely planning on doing an AMA on reddit in the near future! The "targetting capability", definitely does have implications for other types of viruses. While this vaccine focuses on giving the power of HIV control
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If you're vaccinated, your body would fight off the HIV virus. You would have an upgraded immune system. In terms of independently curing AIDS, although the vaccine has therapeutic potential, it mostly likely applies only to those par
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by icinnamon 13y ago
Hey everyone! Ian Cinnamon here from the Immunity Project YC team. The crowdfunding link in the article appears broken (we're working on getting them to fix it). In the meantime, you can visit our campaign here: https://p
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Exactly. In this case, we're lucky enough to use an amazing clinic set up in Durban, South Africa, which has a ~15% prevalence rate of HIV.
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I'm Ian Cinnamon, one of the members of the Immunity Project YC team. We have in fact developed the vaccine. We've completed 2 years of animal testing, and we have one final experiment to run before we start our Phase I Clinica