Well, something again has caught my eye, and this time it's in the medical field. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10224574/Brazilian-scientists-to-test-AIDS-vaccine-on-monkeys.html
Yeah, you read that link right. They're planning to test an AIDS vaccine on monkeys coming this year. Now, let's take look at this a bit more.
Given the very scientific uninteresting name HIVBr18, this vaccine was developed by a team from the Medicine Faculty of the University of Sao Paulo, the Sao Paulo state Research Foundation (or FAPESP for short). The team has said that although the vaccine will not eliminate the virus in it's current state of development, it will keep the virus at a low enough level count to where the victim's immune system will not be compromised, nor will the virus become transferable. In short, the virus becomes almost inert. This research was initiated in 2001 by the gentlemen Edecio Cunha Neto, Jorge Kalil and Simone Fonseca. They hope to acquire a fair amount of funding to initiate the first clinical trials after these tests on the monkeys.
I personally hope this sees the light of day where it is fully developed. Most stuff like this usually gets buried by big business and political rubbish.
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