CNBC: Researchers say they’re closer to finding cure for HIV after using CRISPR technology to eliminate disease in live mice for the first time

By using a gene-editing technology called CRISPR, researchers claim that they are close to developing a cure for HIV, a virus that destroys the white blood cells that fight infection. If left untreated, it can develop into the last stage: AIDS. Currently, there are about 1.1 million people in the U.S. that have this disease, and while antiretroviral therapy is used to counteract the virus from replicating, it does not get rid of HIV. Recently, researchers combined CRISPR technology and LASER ART to destroy the virus in the mice who had human bone marrow injected to imitate the human immune system. Nine of the 21 mice that were tested did not show any signs of the virus after they were experimented on, producing promising findings on a cure for HIV.

To read the full article by Ashley Turner and published in CNBC, click here.