[HN Gopher] Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human ... ___________________________________________________________________ Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human testing after FDA clearance Author : rastafang Score : 100 points Date : 2021-09-18 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.fiercebiotech.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.fiercebiotech.com) | datameta wrote: | This body of research is expanding far quicker than I would have | imagined pre-pandemic. A true silver lining, I have to say. mRNA | vaccine breakthroughs are occurring in cancer research, too. | Human trials happening soon! | https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/09/13-mrna-future-c... | hughes wrote: | Between this and Moderna's mRNA HIV vaccine, it's possible we'll | see HIV eradicated in the coming years. Really amazing. | jimbob45 wrote: | No one's pushing. If PrEP had come out in the 80s, you can be | certain that HIV would have been eradicated by now by force of | public will. | geophile wrote: | Have you met COVID? | jimbob45 wrote: | PrEP prevents transmission 99% of the time. COVID has the | same rate...but only for preventing serious infection. | roflc0ptic wrote: | Yea but like, is everyone going to take PrEP all of the | time? It's great I'm sure if you're planning on doing | otherwise risky behavior, but in my experience, risky sex | is never especially premeditated. It's just a "just this | once", and then suddenly you're buying plan B. | Kliment wrote: | There's several more in their pipeline: | https://www.excision.bio/technology | biggio wrote: | Uhm the HSV vaccine pipeline seems to have changed. Excision | had clinical trials scheduled for 2021 a few years back, if I'm | not mistaken. There are about 4 billion people infected with | HSV worldwide*. Excision could prioritize and deliver the HSV | vaccine and have the company well-funded for other causes. | | * https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes- | simp... | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-18 23:00 UTC)