[HN Gopher] Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy is heading into human ...
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       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...
        
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