Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...infection, including both common infections and opportunistic infections not usually seen in healthy individuals... genome had been excised, leaving only a small portion of the LTRs joined together. Clonal Cas9/gRNA-expressing...populations were also immune to HIV-1 reinfection.
Importantly, no off-target effects were detected. Kaminski...patients. Although this is an exciting finding, it’s important to note that these HIV-1 patients were ART-naive...Cas9. While these results are discouraging, it’s important to note that these experiments were done in cell...propagate and infect adjacent cells. It will be important to determine if CRISPR/Cas9 escape occurs in an...