Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
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Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...latently infected cells. To truly cure HIV-1, researchers need to vanquish these hidden viral reservoirs...“shock and kill” the HIV-infected reservoir, researchers have previously used histone deacetylase (HDAC...could permit some viral protein production, so researchers are also interested in precisely excising the... were used for proof-of-concept studies, but researchers believe that using CRISPR/Cas9 could improve ...represent exciting advances in preclinical HIV-1 research that should be pursued in animal models, and it...benefit many others and accelerate the pace of research. We at Addgene hope to see the problem of in vivo...updated CRISPR Guide!
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