In a provocative first step toward an elusive end to a devastating disease that has claimed 40 million lives, three patients have received CRISPR gene-editing therapies in an effort to eradicate HIV ...

BALTIMORE — An ambitious effort to cure HIV with CRISPR genome editing fell short in an early clinical trial, investigators announced Friday morning. In the study, run by Excision BioTherapeutics, ...

Scientists in China report removing HIV from human DNA using gene-editing technology. Experts say the findings are promising but still far from a confirmed cure.

Since the first reported cases in 1981, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected approximately 86 million people and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people from acquired ...

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Excision BioTherapeutics has so far released positive safety data from the first 3 participants living with HIV-1, with no evidence of vector shedding in sexual organ tissue. A cure for HIV-1 becomes ...

Scientists at Excision BioTherapeutics are running a human clinical trial for a new CRISPR-based drug called EBT-101 which targets human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. There are many tests ...

China research team at Wuhan University of Science and Technology uses CRISPR to remove HIV DNA from human cells, marking a potential breakthrough in treatment.

The first trial to show that vaccination could confer HIV protection was the RV144 HIV vaccine trial. This trial reported an efficacy of 31%. A key element of the RV144 trial was gp120, generated in ...

Credit: Getty Images. A phase 1/2 trial is evaluating the gene therapy in adult patients with HIV-1 who are on stable ART. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to ...

A proof-of-principle study published in Nature Materials shows that gold nanoparticles loaded with CRISPR and other gene-editing tools safely and effectively edited blood stem cells. (Photos, diagram ...