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...Umetsu says, “but that’s just speculation.”SORE WINNERSIn December, HMS researchers at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research found they could harness RNA interference (RNAi), an important gene-expression mechanism, to suppress the virus that causes genital herpes.Judy Lieberman, David Knipe, and Deborah Palliser discovered that a 22-base-long strand of RNA, when absorbed by genital cells in mice, can destroy the messenger RNA responsible for expressing the HSV-2 virus, which is carried by over 20 percent of American adults.Lieberman says she hopes that this process can become...
...just a way of making money. It flows like water, but film had a texture, a feeling, something you could grab onto and feel." Then tragedy struck with the AIDS plague, which took Chuck Vincent, Wade Nichols, Tony Taylor and Holmes. "What happened to the sexual revolution?" asks Humphry Knipe. "It caught AIDS and died...
...hope that within a few years trials can be started for a therapeutic vaccine,” Knipe said...
...vaccine will undergo two types of clinical trials, Knipe said. The first will be a therapeutic trial with people who have already contracted herpes, to see if the vaccine can reduce the infection, while the second will test its preventative capacity in people without the disease...
...Knipe noted that therapeutic trials are generally easier to run because they require fewer people and take less time. He said that there has already been a huge demand for the vaccine, and that he has received e-mails from patients willing to volunteer for trials and doctors eager to run them...