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Emory’s Hope Clinic seeks participants for first human clinical trial of HIV vaccine using mRNA

Researchers with Emory’s Hope Clinic and Vaccine Center will determine whether immunogens, which are molecules capable of eliciting an immune response, can induce specific B-cell responses that have the potential to lead to broadly neutralizing antibody development. The ultimate goal is to vaccinate people against human immunodeficiency virus — HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. […]