Scientists are testing CRISPR gene editing as a potential HIV cure after successfully removing the virus from infected cells ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Researchers at Temple University's School of Medicine and a team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center say they have, for the first time, eliminated the DNA of HIV-1, the ...

He Jiankui, the scientist who claimed to create the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, is one of the most influential ...

Investigators from Whitehead Institute, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to identify three promising ...

A major bottleneck in curing HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is that the virus can hide in an inactive form within resting white blood cells, which play a crucial role in coordinating the immune ...

It is not an exaggeration to say that the development of antiretroviral therapy is one of the most significant accomplishments in the history of medicine. In the early days of the HIV pandemic, newly ...

During infection, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inserts itself into the host genome as a chromosomally-integrated provirus that persists in infected cells. Although antiretroviral therapies ...