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Experimental mRNA HIV vaccine safe, shows promise in animals

Posted: 09 Dec 2021 09:42 AM PST

An experimental HIV vaccine based on mRNA -- the same platform technology used in two highly effective COVID-19 vaccines -- shows promise in mice and non-human primates, according to scientists. Their results show that the novel vaccine was safe and prompted desired antibody and cellular immune responses against an HIV-like virus.

Gene-editing used to create single sex mice litters

Posted: 03 Dec 2021 05:15 AM PST

Scientists have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100 percent efficiency.

Beads of glass in meteorites help scientists piece together how solar system formed

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 05:39 PM PST

Scientists have published an analysis laying out how the tiny beads of glass inside many meteorites came to be -- and what they can tell us about what happened in the early solar system.