Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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Wang Z, Pan Q, Gendron P, Zhu W, Guo F, Cen S, Wainberg MA...other chronic diseases, including dementia, gut disorders, nerve damage, and cardiac disease. This increased... could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy individuals, expanded, and infected...CRISPR reduced the HIV-1 copy number by over 50% in isolated CD4+ T-cells from two HIV-1 infected patients....