Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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Blog Post
... the HIV-infected reservoir, researchers have previously used histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to...the HIV-1 genome from every infected cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed...HIV-1 cleavage allows T-cells to survive, but preventing re-infection would require sustained expression...infects over 250 million people worldwide. As we’ve previously seen in the CRISPR field, the lessons learned...