Aarhus University. "HIV can cut and paste in human genome."
ScienceDaily, 27 May 2014. http://www.scienceda...40527101231.htm
"A technology that uses the HIV virus as a tool in the fight against hereditary diseases -- and in the long term, against HIV infection as well -- has been developed in a first of its kind study. The technology repairs the genome in a new and safer manner. "Now we can simultaneously cut out the part of the genome that is broken in sick cells, and patch the gap that arises in the genetic information which we have removed from the genome. The new aspect here is that we can bring the scissors and the patch together in the HIV particles in a fashion that no one else has done before," says one researcher."
Edited by LexLux, 30 May 2014 - 02:45 AM.