Edit genes to write HIV out of picture

• Autores: Peter Aldhous
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2973, 2014, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Take a hot new method that's opened up a new era of genetic engineering, apply it to the wonder stem cells that in 2012 won their discoverer a Nobel prize, and people might just have a tool to cure HIV infection. That's the hope of a team led by Yuet Kan of the University of California, San Francisco--and they have proved the principle, altering the genome of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to give them a natural mutation that allows some people to resist HIV.