Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...HIV-1 infects cells in the immune system, notably CD4+ T-cells, and eventually leads to acquired immunodeficiency...T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy individuals, ...reduced the HIV-1 copy number by over 50% in isolated CD4+ T-cells from two HIV-1 infected patients. Although...