Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...the immune response. The second strategy is the simple removal of the HIV-1 genome from infected cells...efficiency differed from 48-100% between strains. In a similar experiment, CRISPR reduced the HIV-1 copy number...evidence that an HIV-1 cure may be within our reach. Similar studies have shown that CRISPR can be used to combat...