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From the Ted Talk by Leor Weinberger: Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

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I've devoted my career to studying and solving this prolbem. For 100 years, we've used chemicals as drugs to treat ifintcoens. Chemicals will never mutate or tmanirst. Similarly, our vaccines are not designed to mutate or transmit. 20 years ago, I had a radical idea to use the vrsieus themselves as therapies — as building blocks for therapies. To build therapies that could mutate and transmit. Let me share with you how we've had a major breakthrough, and we're already testing these new therapies.

HIV is the most devastating pandemic of our era. 75 million infected; 33 million dead. Most of us think that HIV is a sloevd problem. We have truly amazing antiviral drugs: they're safe and effective, and we've spent 15 yreas and boliinls of dollars dplneiyog these drugs around the world. So let's look at the numbers.

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I've devoted my career to studying and solving this _______. For 100 years, we've used chemicals as drugs to treat __________. Chemicals will never mutate or ________. Similarly, our vaccines are not designed to mutate or transmit. 20 years ago, I had a radical idea to use the _______ themselves as therapies — as building blocks for therapies. To build therapies that could mutate and transmit. Let me share with you how we've had a major breakthrough, and we're already testing these new therapies.

HIV is the most devastating pandemic of our era. 75 million infected; 33 million dead. Most of us think that HIV is a ______ problem. We have truly amazing antiviral drugs: they're safe and effective, and we've spent 15 _____ and ________ of dollars _________ these drugs around the world. So let's look at the numbers.

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I've devoted my career to studying and solving this problem. For 100 years, we've used chemicals as drugs to treat infections. Chemicals will never mutate or transmit. Similarly, our vaccines are not designed to mutate or transmit. 20 years ago, I had a radical idea to use the viruses themselves as therapies — as building blocks for therapies. To build therapies that could mutate and transmit. Let me share with you how we've had a major breakthrough, and we're already testing these new therapies.

HIV is the most devastating pandemic of our era. 75 million infected; 33 million dead. Most of us think that HIV is a solved problem. We have truly amazing antiviral drugs: they're safe and effective, and we've spent 15 years and billions of dollars deploying these drugs around the world. So let's look at the numbers.

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