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So You Wanna Be in Science Communication? A Q&A With BioBuzz Managing Editor Sarah Ellinwood

If you find that you enjoy talking about science more than pipetting and running assays, then SciComm might be a great career option for you! The good news is that there are also a lot of different branches that fall under the SciComm umbrella, including but not limited to:

American Gene Technologies says clinical trial shows increases in immunity against HIV

ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — There’s more good news in the fight to cure HIV.
American Gene Technologies says its clinical trial has resulted in more patients with substantial increases in virus-specific T-cells with immunity against HIV.
Progress in HIV cure: AGT hopes to have a ‘functionally cured patient by next summer’
“Now the question will be the very final step when we withdraw antiretroviral therapy, will it behave as we expect which is to take over viral suppression and these patients will not need to go back on their antiretroviral therapy again,” said CEO Jeff Galvin.
He says that process would start by the end of March at the earliest and he hopes to find out how successful it is by June.