Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been a formidable virus that has claimed many lives in the past. According to the UN AIDS report, 480,000–880,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2022. About 39 million people globally were living with HIV in 2022. However, the good news is that scientists have found a way of cutting out the virus from the infected cells.
Thanks to the “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats” (CRISPR/Cas9) technology that has made this feat possible. CRISPR/Cas9 edits genes by precisely cutting DNA and then leveraging natural DNA repair processes to modify the gene according to one’s desire.
Dr. James Dixon, stem-cell and gene-therapy technologies associate professor at the University of Nottingham, agrees that the full findings still require scrutiny.
He said, “Much more work will be needed to demonstrate results in these cell assays can happen in an entire body for a future therapy,”.
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