Template:Did you know nominations/Bette Korber


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Bette Korber

 * ... 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)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg - 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)
 * Symbol question.svg 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 S 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)
 * Thank you. I also don't understand why ALT2 was crossed out. I've left a notice on the reviewer's talk page for him to come back to this discussion. Yoninah (talk) 23:13, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg - Hi, happy to approve your ALT2 (AGF to offline refs). I had crossed out the original ALT2 as I thought it was too quote heavy and while I thought I left that as an explanatory note, my recollection appears to be mistaken.  Best, Mifter Public (talk) 03:58, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Yoninah (talk) 12:37, 19 December 2018 (UTC)