John Fillmore (R), would substantially change the way Arizonans vote by eliminating most early and absentee voting and requiring people to vote in their home precincts, rather than at vote centers set up around the state. Those proteins are "widely considered to be the goal of HIV vaccination, and this is the first step in that process,” according to Moderna.Īn arch conservative member of Arizona’s state House of Representatives has proposed a mammoth overhaul of the state’s voting procedures that would allow legislators to overturn the results of a primary or general election after months of unfounded allegations and partisan audits. This clinical phase aims to test if the vaccine candidate can induce a specific type of white blood cells, known as B-cells, and guide them to create antibodies that have shown in lab results to neutralize a broad range of HIV variants and protect humans against infection.
"The search for an HIV vaccine has been long and challenging, and having new tools in terms of immunogens and platforms could be the key to making rapid progress toward an urgently needed, effective HIV vaccine." "We are tremendously excited to be advancing this new direction in HIV vaccine design with Moderna's mRNA platform," said IAVI CEO Mark Feinberg in a statement announcing the program. MRNA works by teaching human cells to produce proteins that trigger immune responses.
The biotechnology company teamed up with the nonprofit to develop the new vaccine using so-called messenger RNA, the same novel technology used in making Moderna and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines. Moderna and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) administered the first doses of their experimental HIV vaccine on Thursday, marking the beginning of their clinical trial’s first phase. But I think without the help of an adblocker I would find it much worse.Īs far as I’m concerned an adblocker is a requirement. The internet these days has lost a lot of its charm, and I personally don’t find it quite as fun to browse as I once did. But either way, the 73% are experiencing a very different internet. What an unpleasant experience.Īccording to this article 27% of American internet users use an adblocker (which seems a little high to me). There they were, flashing and taking up large parcels of screen real estate (along with I’m sure doing their usual tracking creepiness). Lots of ads being regularly shown at intervals throughout the video.Īlso, a side effect of turning off my adblocker to check for video ads was that I was presented by general internet ads for the first time in a long time.
Ah, silly me.īut just to be sure ads were the reason the website could afford to run video, I turned off my adblocker for the first time in years and visited the same page/video I was investigating. I’ve been browsing the web with an adblocker for so long that I’d totally forgotten about the existence of ads being spliced into video content. I’ve just spent the past hour writing a blog post about why on earth certain websites have autoplaying videos that must cost them a fortune in bandwidth.