New advances in CRISPR gene-editing could lead to an HIV cure - Interesting Engineering

The study looked at T cells that were isolated from donated human blood and had hundreds of their genes knocked out using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) virus is a small, unassuming virus with only 12 proteins and a genome only a third of the size of SARS-CoV-2. Yet, it manages to hijack the body’s cells to repl… [+3464 chars]

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