CRISPR gene editing could kill HIV. But is it a cure? Gene-cutting technique is targeting infectious disease, hoping to eradicate virus.

Promise and peril of gene-editing technology CRISPR 06:56. While the work signals progress, the medical community still sees years of work ahead before there's a reliable cure for HIV.

According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, there were between 31.6 million and 44.5 million people living with HIV throughout the world as of 2019, with between 25.1 million and ...

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In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to snip the AIDS-causing virus out of his cells.

Khalili and his Temple colleagues previously used CRISPR to cut off large fragments of HIV DNA from infected immune cells. However, similar to ART, gene editing alone didn’t completely eliminate ...

Researchers use CRISPR to accelerate search for HIV cure Date: October 25, 2016 Source: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Summary: A newly developed gene-editing system has been used ...

Using a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, the UCSF researchers have already tested dozens of genes believed to play a role in how HIV spreads within the body.

Trisomy is a genetic condition characterized by the presence of an extra chromosome. This means that the affected person has ...

A team of scientists has cleared HIV from infected mice using CRISPR. It may be the first time the virus has been eliminated from living animals' genomes.

Since the HIV research was published, a team of biologists at University of California, Berkeley, described 10 new CRISPR enzymes that, once activated, are said to "behave like Pac-Man" to chew ...

Scientists in Japan have used CRISPR-Cas9 technology to stop human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication in latently infected T cells that can’t be controlled using existing drug ...