Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Did these scientists just cure HIV/AIDS?

The Temple University scientists may have brought us one step closer to a cure. They employed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, first developed in 2012, to cut HIV-1 out of the genome, after which the human DNA healed itself.
#AIDS #HIV #CRISPR #DNA #HumanGenome http://inhabitat.com/did-these-scientists-just-cure-hivaids/ Researchers at Temple University were able to edit the HIV-1 DNA out of the human genome, and the edited cells showed immunity to the HIV virus.



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