HIV vaccine developed in Canada approved for human studies

[Mave]

A Canadian-developed vaccine to prevent HIV has been given the green light for testing in human clinical trials.

The vaccine, developed by researchers at the University of Western Ontario, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start being tested in humans in January.

It is the first preventive HIV vaccine approved for clinical trials to use a whole HIV-1 virus, which has been both killed and genetically engineered, to activate immunity. In this way, the new vaccine is much like the killed whole virus vaccines that are successful against polio, rabies and influenza.

Other HIV vaccines currently in clinical human trials have largely focused on one specific component of HIV to trigger an immune response. Right now, there is no effective HIV vaccine.

“FDA approval for human clinical trials is an extremely significant milestone for our vaccine, which has the potential to save the lives of millions of people around the world by preventing HIV infection,” said Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, professor of virology at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, in a release.

The announcement was made Tuesday morning in London.

The vaccine, the only HIV vaccine being developed in Canada, received funding from Sumagen Canada, a company created in 2008 to support the development of the vaccine.

Previous studies have shown the vaccine triggers a strong immune response and has yet to show any adverse effects or safety risks.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1104653--canadian-developed-hiv-vaccine-approved-for-human-studies?bn=1

 

[GPow69]

Cool. Now do Cancer.

 

[Nimphiouus]

So technically, they are injecting you with the AIDS virus, just it's been killed and "engineered"

:troll: Fuck that shit guise, I'll risk it.

 

[Panki]

So technically, they are injecting you with the AIDS virus

Most of the immunization you get mean either injecting the germs so your body can build antibodys or directly getting antibodys from an animal.

 

[Impulse]

So technically, they are injecting you with the AIDS virus

Most of the immunization you get mean either injecting the germs so your body can build antibodys or directly getting antibodys from an animal.

The be more precise, they inject you with an almost dead strain of the virus. A strain of the virus which your body should be able to fight of pretty easily. The way the virus was killed will then be saved somewhere in the bone marrow. If the virus is then detected, lets say 10 years later, a signal will be send to the bone marrow by the white blood cells leading to specific anti bodies being created again by the new white blood cells. This is usually refered to as a passive immune system (or something like that).

You also have an active version of this, this is just injecting you with the anti bodies. Leading to your body actually not knowing how to battle the virus, thus you will be able to get the virus again if the antibodies are out of your system again, which will happen after a certain amount of time.

 

[Mave]

So technically, they are injecting you with the AIDS virus

Most of the immunization you get mean either injecting the germs so your body can build antibodys or directly getting antibodys from an animal.

The be more precise, they inject you with an almost dead strain of the virus. A strain of the virus which your body should be able to fight of pretty easily. The way the virus was killed will then be saved somewhere in the bone marrow. If the virus is then detected, lets say 10 years later, a signal will be send to the bone marrow by the white blood cells leading to specific anti bodies being created again by the new white blood cells. This is usually refered to as a passive immune system (or something like that).

You also have an active version of this, this is just injecting you with the anti bodies. Leading to your body actually not knowing how to battle the virus, thus you will be able to get the virus again if the antibodies are out of your system again, which will happen after a certain amount of time.

Pretty interesting..