Gene Editing Strategy Eliminates HIV-1 Infection in Live Animals, Temple Researchers Show

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This is old, but I never heard about it until today:

A permanent cure for HIV infection remains elusive due to the virus's ability to hide away in latent reservoirs. But now, in new research published in print May 3 in the journal Molecular Therapy, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and the University of Pittsburgh show that they can excise HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals to eliminate further infection. They are the first to perform the feat in three different animal models, including a “humanized” model in which mice were transplanted with human immune cells and infected with the virus.

Source: Gene Editing Strategy Eliminates HIV-1 Infection in Live Animals, Temple Researchers Show | Lewis Katz School of Medicine
 
If they can use this technology on humans, it has the potential to revolutionize the medical world. One of the hardest thing to fight is viruses, even more so retroviruses. This technology is very promising.
 
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