In what can be said as a breakthrough in medical research, HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus has been eliminated from cells in a lab test. The scientists, led by Dr Elena Herrera-Carrillo and part of her team (Yuanling Bao, Zhenghao Yu and Pascal Kroon) at Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands have been able to target HIV DNA using Crispr-Cas. This gene-editing tool had won the Nobel Prize in 2020.
"Striving for an inclusive ‘HIV cure for all’ that can inactivate diverse HIV strains across various cellular contexts," the study authors have said.
