A national laboratory working on the AIDS vaccine has announced that it has successfully eliminated the virus that causes AIDS as a result of inoculating monkeys with the vaccine under development.
The institute says it is a discovery that will lead to a complete cure for AIDS.
AIDS is a disease that causes various complications due to weakened immunity, and more than 20,000 people have been reported in Japan to be infected with HIV that causes AIDS.
The national research institute, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, inoculated a monkey called cynomolgus monkey with the vaccine under development, and then put a kind of artificially made HIV into the body and confirmed the progress.
As a result, four out of seven animals were infected once, but the virus was not detected after that.
The laboratory believes that the vaccine has eliminated the virus from the monkey's body due to the increased immune function, and hopes to begin clinical trials in humans within five years.
Yasuhiro Hotomi, director of the National Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, said, "It is expected that the development of therapeutic drugs and vaccines will progress with the discovery that will lead to the complete cure of AIDS, which was difficult until now." It is said that.