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FDA approves
pure DNA
vaccine trials
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON ? The Food and Drug
Administration has approved the first
human testing of a vaccine made with
pure DNA, in an attempt to find a way
to protect against AIDS.
Apollon Inc. and the National
Institutes of Health will test the
experimental AIDS vaccine on 15 healthy
people at the NIH hospital in Bethesda,
Md. '
Potential AIDS vaccines have been
given to healthy people before. But this
one marks the first time a healthv rwsrm
has received the pure genetic material
of any disease.
Apollon made the vaccine from a
gene responsible for forming one of the
surface proteins of HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS.
There is no risk to healthy volunteers
because the genetic material is not
infectious, said FDA vaccine expert
Karen Goldenthal. "You couldn't get
HIV from this," she said Monday.
Apollon already tested the vaccine
in HIV-infected patients with no ill effects. !
The new trial had been discussed at a
federal AIDS vaccine meeting last month, :
but was officially announced Monday.
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