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Bette Korber

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... that Bette Korber created a database at Los Alamos National Laboratory that has enabled her to design novel mosaic HIV vaccines, one of which is currently in human testing in Africa? Santa Fe New Mexican

Edge, S. (December 2, 2017). "LANL biologist 'cautiously' optimistic about HIV vaccine". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved September 28, 2018.

ALT1:...that Bette Korber developed a novel, mosaic HIV vaccine that may slow or prevent HIV infections and is currently in human testing in Africa?"Santa Fe New Mexican

ALT2:...~~that Bette Korberhas described the creation of mosaic test proteins as her making "sort of little Frankenstein proteins that look and feel like HIV proteins but they don’t exist in nature"?~~ Sainani, K. (2009). "Evolution and HIV: Using computational phylogenetics to close in on a killer". Biomedical Computation Review. Symbios, the NIH National Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures. pp. 20–31.

ALT3:...that American computational biologist Bette Korber's work on creating HIV vaccines was partially driven by a close friend contracting AIDS? "McEnerny, R. (2010), "Tracking HIV Evolution", IAVI Report, 14 (3), pp. 4–9.

Improved to Good Article status by LLMHoopes, Dr. Laura Hoopes (talk). Nominated by LLMHoopes (talk) at 20:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC).

Comment: This page was incorrectly transcluded by the nominator. I have fixed the error on the nominations page. feminist (talk) 03:37, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

- Length, Date, Cite (ALT1 verified, ALT3 offline ref accepted AGF), and Earwigs check. QPQ exempt as this is a first DYK. I've streamlined the hooks a bit and ALTs 1 & 3 are approved. Best, Mifter (talk) 00:42, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but ALT1 is a little vague without an explanation of "mosaic", and ALT3 is the usual scientist being influenced by the death of a friend. She is a very colorful speaker and some of her quotes would make better hooks than these. You could rewrite ALT2 this way:
ALT2: ... that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic antigen vaccine against HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"? Yoninah (talk) 17:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I am comfortable with your change in alt 2 Yoninah, but I am confused since earlier someone else apparently approved alt1 and alt3 but rejected and crossed out alt2. I do not see that person's comments any more so I don't know what happened. In any case, I would be happy with your version of alt2. LLMHoopes (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2018 (UTC)