Temple researchers snip out dormant HIV from cells - Philly.com
Temple University researchers have used state-of-the-art molecular scissors to cut out dormant HIV hiding in human cells, fueling hopes for curing - not just suppressing - the insidious infection that causes AIDS.
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"This paper is good, but it's only an incremental step over what's already been done, and it is not easy to get [gene editing] into humans," said Manjunath, an infectious disease specialist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. "The potential is there, but there are a lot of hurdles to get this into the clinic."
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