Using CRISPR to eliminate HIV

Using CRISPR to eliminate HIV

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Fierce Biotech
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HIV integrates its genetic material into the genomes of the host’s cells, which currently available ART can’t target. In a study in Nature Communications, scientists at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center said the combination of CRISPR and a newly developed ART successfully eliminated HIV DNA from about 30% of infected mice.