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(11/12/02); Woodman, Richard
British vaccine maker PowderJect announced that
it would begin human testing of its DNA vaccine against HIV, which is being
developed with GlaxoSmithKline, in 2003. PowderJect is developing five DNA
vaccines that can be injected at supersonic speed into the immune cells in the
top layer of skin, which turns them into factories that convert the DNA into
proteins that stimulate the immune response against HIV. PowderJect Chairman
and CEO Paul Drayson anticipates the DNA vaccine against HIV could be launched
by the end of this decade.
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