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C Santa Cruz Professor Develops HIV Vaccine
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 5/18

Posted on 05/18/2015 4:31:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

For 30 years, UC Santa Cruz professor and vaccine developer Phil Berman has been chasing a moving target — the insidious, ever-changing HIV virus — and now, finally, he thinks he has it cornered.

Berman’s lab has developed an experimental vaccine he believes will guard against HIV and AIDS. The model is expected to go to clinical trial within three years.

When Berman was a Genentech scientist in the 1990s, he invented the world’s first vaccine to show any success against HIV. When it was tested with another vaccine in a 2003 to 2009 large-scale trial involving 16,000 people in Thailand, the vaccine combination proved a 31 percent success rate.

But that’s not high enough for regulatory approval, which requires a 60 percent rate, said Berman, and this new model, drawn from his previous work, will prove stronger.

Berman’s approach, like most other vaccines, is to create a decoy by mimicking a protein on the virus’s surface. When this protein is injected into the bloodstream, it spurs the patient’s immune system to create antibodies that recognize and kill it.

(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...


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1 posted on 05/18/2015 4:31:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Good news for bath house Barry!


2 posted on 05/18/2015 4:34:28 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: nickcarraway

I developed a vaccine years ago.

Avoid buttsecs with homos.


3 posted on 05/18/2015 4:41:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: nickcarraway

No thamky.

Not a homo, not into casual sex.


4 posted on 05/18/2015 4:46:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

See my tagline.


5 posted on 05/18/2015 5:03:25 PM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sure, like all the other vaccines and cures.


6 posted on 05/18/2015 5:38:11 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: nickcarraway

They have been talking about an effective HIV vaccine for more than 25 years now.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 5:39:38 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: Michael.SF.

TO LATE. Even with the best health care and drugs in the world, he is still losing weight and looks more and more like the walking dead.


8 posted on 05/18/2015 10:57:15 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cripplecreek

Every bit of news like this only encourages their behavior.

I was at the doc the other day and picked up a homo magazine. It was very empowering to their poo-flinging lifestyle.

It actually said that you, as a homo, are not obligated to inform your partners of your AIDS/HIV statuss. I consider that a crime.

Frankly, I think they should be branded, in the name of public safety.


9 posted on 05/19/2015 8:07:31 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (B.L.O.A.T. - B.I.T.S. !)
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To: RingerSIX

That’s the reason the libs were trying to infect the blood supply.
People like you and I don’t behave in a manner that contracts this disease,
and therefore, we “don’t care enough”.

Infecting the blood supply was to force people to care about it.


10 posted on 05/19/2015 8:10:51 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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