Medicine & TechnologyHIV patients are now offered a new way to get rid of the virus from their body and genetic editing might be the best thing that will save their lives.
It is the first time scientists used a gold nanoparticle loaded with CRISPR to edit genes in a rare but powerful subset of blood stem cells, the source of all blood cells
Research indicates that while a majority of the 1,989 HIV+ women they have been studying since 1994 have been able to control their virus, often on and off, challenges such as mental health, unstable housing, and lack of social support constitute ongoing barriers to effective and sustained viral suppression
A major breakthrough seems to be the solution for the long-term suffering of HIV patients. It's because scientists found a way to make cells resist the virus.
Treatment individualization has always been a treatment limitation in HIV patients. Researchers have found a new drug that could eliminate this problem the antiretroviral treatment.