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Three people were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown.

Three people were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown.

Vaccine makers have also struggled because HIV kills the very immune cells meant to stop infection. But a decade ago, Khalili says, he realized that CRISPR might offer a way to cure the infection without involving the immune system: by deleting the virus’s genes from their hiding places. “If the viral gene is in your […]