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The difference is small but critical because the new success rate of 26% falls below the threshold for statistical significance. That means that the odds of being protected from infection by the AIDS vaccine may be no better than chance.
It happened again on Saturday when researchers learned that the first ever successful AIDS vaccine turned out not to be the triumph they had originally hoped. In September, scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Army announced the results of an AIDS-vaccine study in Thailand...
Fauci acknowledges that the vaccine's effect is small, but believes that it's an important first step toward understanding how the body fights off HIV. "It's barely significant, yes," he says. "But it's interesting in that it opens up a door for us to be able to...
According to Ferri, locks for individual lockers have always been available upon request, but most of the team felt that the locker room’s code-protected entrance was sufficient protection against theft. Ferri said coaches have now distributed padlocks to all players on the softball team.
The Thai study is already a winner in that researchers now have a population of patients who are protected against infection with HIV after inoculation; they can begin to analyze the patients' immune responses more closely to tease out the elusive factors that shielded them from HIV. That's more...