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Re:If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS... by trillium on Thursday January 23, 2014 @02:15PM (#7110436)
This is an ambitious goal. Finding an AIDS vaccine isn't easy.

I still vividly recall my Professor who has many years experiences with viruses saying, "I don't think there will ever be an AIDS vaccine."

I think and hope he's wrong, but it is surely no easy task.

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Re:If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS... by dekhn on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:31PM (#7111840)
Genentech dumped billions into developed AIDSVAX. It never worked for them well enough to market, but VaxGen took the IP and has shown interesting results - but still far from production ready.
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Re:If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS... by guipsp on Thursday January 23, 2014 @02:42PM (#7110630)
From what I read, they already have one developed.
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Re:If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS... by wazoox on Thursday January 23, 2014 @03:10PM (#7110859)
There have been some vaccines developed already, some even reached phase 1 to 3 human testing, and one even reached actual use.

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/hivaids/research/vaccines/Pa...

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