₦airaland Forum

Grandmeister:
Who said chess requires a high IQ?? You just need average intelligence to understand the rules and play the game. Are you saying every chess grandmaster is a genius? Totally false! And if Nigerians had the same environment to nurture chess talents we will have a GM by now. It’s all about your environment. We’ve had our International masters beat grandmasters in tournaments abroad.

Yes I stand by my word.. To be good in Chess requires a high IQ.. Every chess grandmaster is good at mathematics.. A typical Chess grandmaster strategizes, thinks and calculates very fast.. The Indians where most grandmasters are from are excellent at mathematics, even from an early age..I've seen an Indian boy at age 12 solving complex mathematics correctly without biro and paper and he was home-schooled by his poor parents. He couldn't even attend a proper school due to poverty but his exceptional maths ability is still flourishing unlike Nigerians that blame their environment/government.. To be a genius is a gift and cannot be hidden in any environment. Stop blaming your government and the environment.

Hyping and Lies.. Nigerians always feeling like they're the smartest in the world..lol..Always blaming the government, lecturers, etc.. Since we're so smart why don't we have plenty inventions to our name.. Why are the Chinese, Japanese, Russians and co leading in major scientific discoveries, space and rocket calculations, robotics, etc.. Thomas Edison, Micheal Faraday, Albert Einstein and co were poor in their lifetime and didn't have any support from their government but still discovered some amazing theories in Physics and other inventions to their name.. Even in games that requires a high IQ such as Chess, no Nigerian Grandmaster.. All you guys have is just Nigerian Mentality.

AsherAmari:
I know you're happy. Very happy.

LOL.. You're really smart.

AsherAmari:
What i mean is it will now increase.

Doesn't matter if it increases having sex rate.. There are other diseases you can get from having unprotected sex. As long as people no longer die from HIV/AIDS, it's a win for the whole world.

Novel HIV vaccine approach shows promise in “landmark” first-in-human trial


The vaccine was able to target the desired immune cells and could become the first stage of a multi-step vaccine strategy to combat HIV and various other viral diseases.

Syringe drawing from a vial labelled 'HIV Vaccine'
A novel vaccine approach for the prevention of HIV has shown promise in Phase I trials, reported IAVI and Scripps Research. According to the organisations, the vaccine successfully stimulated the production of the rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV in 97 percent of participants.

The vaccine is being developed to act as an immune primer, to trigger the activation of naïve B cells via a process called germline-targeting, as the first stage in a multi-step vaccine regimen to elicit the production of many different types of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs). Stimulating the production of bnAbs has been pursued as a holy grail in HIV for decades. It is hoped that these specialised blood proteins could attach to HIV surface proteins called spikes, which allow the virus to enter human cells, and disable them via a difficult-to-access regions that does not vary much from strain to strain.

“We and others postulated many years ago that in order to induce bnAbs, you must start the process by triggering the right B cells – cells that have special properties giving them potential to develop into bnAb-secreting cells,” explained Dr William Schief, a professor and immunologist at Scripps Research and executive director of vaccine design at IAVI’s Neutralizing Antibody Center, whose laboratory developed the vaccine. “In this trial, the targeted cells were only about one in a million of all naïve B cells. To get the right antibody response, we first need to prime the right B cells. The data from this trial affirms the ability of the vaccine immunogen to do this.”


Schief presented the results at the International AIDS Society HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) virtual conference on Wednesday 3 February.

In the Phase I IAVI G001trial, 48 healthy adult volunteers were enrolled to receive either a placebo or two doses of the vaccine compound, eOD-GT8 60mer, along with an adjuvant developed by the GlaxoSmithKline.

One of the lead investigators on the trial, Dr Julie McElrath, senior vice president and director of Fred Hutch’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, said the trial was “a landmark study in the HIV vaccine field,” adding that they had demonstrated “success in the first step of a pathway to induce broad neutralising antibodies against HIV-1.”

HIV affects more than 38 million people globally and is among the most difficult viruses to target with a vaccine, in large part because of its unusually fast mutation rate which allows it to constantly evolve and evade the immune system.

Dr Schief commented: “This study demonstrates proof of principle for a new vaccine concept for HIV, a concept that could be applied to other pathogens as well. With our many collaborators on the study team, we showed that vaccines can be designed to stimulate rare immune cells with specific properties and this targeted stimulation can be very efficient in humans. We believe this approach will be key to making an HIV vaccine and possibly important for making vaccines against other pathogens.”

The company’s said this study sets the stage for additional clinical trials that will seek to refine and extend the approach, with the long-term goal of creating a safe and effective HIV vaccine. As a next step, the collaborators are partnering with the biotechnology company Moderna to develop and test an mRNA-based vaccine that harnesses the approach to produce the same beneficial immune cells. According to the team, using mRNA technology could significantly accelerate the pace of HIV vaccine development, as it did with vaccines for COVID-19.

“This is a tremendous achievement for vaccine science as a whole,” said Dr Dennis Burton, professor and chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, scientific director of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center and director of the NIH Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development. “This clinical trial has shown that we can drive immune responses in predictable ways to make new and better vaccines, and not just for HIV. We believe this type of vaccine engineering can be applied more broadly, bringing about a new day in vaccinology.”

The scientists believe the same approach could also be applied to vaccines for other challenging pathogens such as influenza, dengue, Zika, hepatitis C and malaria.

First long-acting HIV treatment approved in Europe…


https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/141892/novel-hiv-vaccine-approach-shows-promise-in-landmark-first-in-human-trial/

Brilliant.. Unfortunately he has no influence in this government.. No single rep, All the federal ministers and even CBN governor go fit chance am.. No level

NotGej:
Put this pictures down or censor the faces. They are peoples relation.

It may break their hearts to see the dead bodies of their loved one on the internet like that.

Be guided accordingly.

This is why we need a social media law.. Putting up accident victim's bodies online just because you own a mobile phone.. No respect to the families of the victims

100k multiplied by 40 = 4 million naira.. Just like that some group of policeman have cash out.. This country nawa

What a sad way to die.. RIP

This is slandering.. Please get your facts before spoiling a good man's name.. I know him personally and his a man of integrity

Nigeria is on autopilot.. Indeed, we don't have a President

Gone in Sixty Seconds.. Nicholas Cage

Clout chaser . That's his strategy.

NCDC Scamdemic.. Just because most people complained of the zero case recorded by NCDC in Lagos after all the protest and labelled them a scam, today they now claim to have 77 new cases in Lagos.. This is so predictable NCDC

NCDC Scamdemic.. So after all the #EndSars street protests, hooliganism, looting of palliatives and various types of mass gatherings in Lagos recently, so they mean there is no outbreak of Covid-19 ..What we have is a clear case of Scamdemic in Nigeria.

remigiusizunna:
10yrs old Facebook account for sale

Then you'll follow the youths to block roads, destroy cars and scatter properties saying #EndSars.. Hypocrite

Quite Interesting.. Ebuka doing a nice speech.. Always so eloquent.. Intelligent Lawyer.

TheGreatYam:
Good one

Let me tell you the way SARS operate in Delta State.

They see a very neat vehicle in front of their vehicle, they then tell themselves that the owner of that car "Go get money".

They overtake the vehicle to see who's driving. Once it's a young adult, they block the vehicle like armed robbers, come down of their vehicles and ask the driver to come down.

They ask you what you do for a living. After you tell them, they ask to see an ID card.

If your job is not related to the government, they say it's a lie. And say you're a criminal.

1. They then ask to see your phone. If you refuse, they slap you, hit you carelessly and cock their guns ready to shoot you.

2. If you agree, they go through your phone and immediately they see that you have a foreign number among your phone contacts they say you're a criminal. If they see any foreign number on your WhatsApp, they say you're a criminal.

3. Any picture of a white person on your phone, they say you're a criminal.

4. If you don't meet any of these criteria they then ask for your papers. And tell you there's one particular vehicle paper that is missing.

The summary is that you must give them money.

If your case is number 4, then you're lucky. If your case is between 1 and 3, then start saying your last prayer.

If you have dreadlocks, tattoo, or earring on your ear, then you're dead!

They will check your account balance and how much you have inside will determine how much they will collect from you.

You're right.. They trail you right from the express into summit road and overtake you just like armed robbers with guns and arrest you.. After that they'll drive your car behind them to their office for more extortion and brutality.. Especially if you own a GLK and the windows are tinted..You must encounter them.

Tolanibaj is so sexy tonight

Laycon don take over.. His in the Jacuzzi with Nengi.. Ozo I hope you're watching and see how foolish you are.

Laycon just said he misses Erica the most.. What's with this Laycon guy and Erica.. I don tire.

Only updates henceforth.. Pls guys.. Thanks

Lazyyouth4u:
Kiddwaya must be kicking himself real bad where ever he is for leaving on Sunday and missing out on the opportunity to win this car o

He doesn't need the car.. His father has a fleet of exotic cars at his disposal.

See as Ozo is just alone in his own world with Nengi.. His not interested in discussing with other housemates..smh

Prince doesn't know that fuel is now 160 per liter .. Trickytee thinks it's 125 per liter.. LOL

Kidwaya making too much sense.. Even Laycon confirm am

Ozo.. Lol.. Mumuboi

Tricytee is intelligent.. I'm impressed

Van de Beek is not an average player.. His a very good midfielder.. Watch him out this incoming season.. He will clear all your doubts.. Good buy by Ole G.

Nice one Pastor.. #Respect

Pavillon:
Na when i still be undergrad this shit dy shack me,

ohh, my school dy top this school, my school better pass this school.

as I don comot now, my eye don clear..

Very funny

ArchAnge1:
Ozo I met Ronaldo

Kidd I saw Bill Gates


Bragfest

It was at Dangote's daughter's wedding.. Kidwaya na boss