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Are We Getting Closer to a Herpes Vaccine?

The Pharma Data

The gene edit prevents the virus from performing its normal evasive maneuver: hiding out in nervous system cells in order to elude the immune system. As Pickard explained, one issue is that some candidate vaccines use only a subset of HSV components, or antigens, to try to generate an immune response. MONDAY, Nov.

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