In St. Petersburg, a vaccine against AIDS

In St. Petersburg, beginning to experience drug against AIDS. A program of clinical trials of DNA vaccines.

DNA vaccine   It developed at the Biomedical Center, led by Professor of the St. Petersburg State University Andrei Kozlov. Test AIDS drugs   held with the participation of volunteers. A total of twenty-one. As the experts said, the volunteers - ordinary healthy young people. Researchers monitor the body's response to AIDS drugs . They have found that the vaccine is safe for humans. Phase I clinical trials on laboratory animals completed not long ago. After receiving positive results, the scientists were allowed to test on humans.

Scientists predict that this stage of clinical trials DNA vaccines It will take several years. While experts expressed kept on this issue. For example, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko He said that "this is just one of the possible candidates for the so-called vaccines." According to   Gennady Onishchenko , The success of scientists in this field will be only after receiving reports of clinical trials and their expertise by leading independent researchers.

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