Canada has been working for over twenty years to develop a vaccine for HIV. The animal safety trials have been completed and now they are just waiting for permission to try it on humans. The entire process may still take up to another ten years until it is publicly distributed, but what a concept well on its way to snuffing out a disease that has already killed over 25 million people since 1981.
Imagine a process of this scale that could virtually saves thousand if not millions of lives worldwide. Thinking back to the innovations that have created life as we know it, it is mind-boggling to consider that most of these life-changing ideas were derived from a single thought, often from a single person.
I am intrigued by the human mind. Moving through history bookmarking just a few of the discoveries and inventions. The invention of the light-bulb by Thomas Edison in 1879, the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell also in the 1870’s, the first freely programmable computer by Konrad Zuse in 1936. The list goes on and on – and of course each one of these inventions has been modified and corrected year after year. It really would take months and possibly years of research and compilation to appreciate the inventions that have brought us to our modern state.
I really can’t even begin to touch this subject and it really is overwhelming to consider the possibilities that have not yet been realized. It certainly makes me pause and consider how wonderfully we are made.
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AIDS and HIV is going on increasing at an alarming rate and is a big problem. Many new approaches have been adopted to create potent anti aids vaccine, with an estimated 2.7 million HIV infections constantly cropping up globally every year. Miniature versions of the HIV virus are taken and modified in laboratories to develop synthetic copies. The vaccine being tested will have the ability to effectively produce either cytotoxic T cells or antibodies that will aid in combating the infection.
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