Moderna, a Massachusetts-based company which has recently been acknowledged for developing a viable COVID-19 vaccine, will soon begin human trials of a revolutionary HIV vaccine. Researchers expect that the mRNA technology used to develop the COVID-19 vaccine will also work against HIV resulting in an effective vaccine against the later. Moderna's strategy is based on the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a non-profit organisation and Scripps Research, a non-profit research facility in San Diego. In addition, a collaborative study shown that it is possible to increase activity of immune cells termed germline B-cells, which can create broadly neutralising antibodies against HIV in humans.
Jyoti Prakash Sahoo*
Dept. of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 003), India
Pratikshya Mishra
Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 003), India
Kailash Chandra Samal
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