Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...increased risk of infection, including both common infections and opportunistic infections not usually seen...destroy infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. ...individuals, expanded, and infected with HIV-1. For two HIV-1 strains, Cas9/gRNA lentiviral expression significantly...latent HIV-1 infection, which would make it easier for an “escape” virus to propagate and infect adjacent ...combat other viral infections, notably a mouse model of Hepatitis B, a disease that infects over 250 million...Over 25 million people worldwide are currently infected with the lentivirus HIV-1. Today, HIV-1 can be...completely disappear; it just hides in latently infected cells. To truly cure HIV-1, researchers need to...