Wow this is super interesting! I’m just a layperson, but what’s interesting to me is that this seems distinct from past therapeutic uses of CRISPR that I am fam

Wow this is super interesting! I’m just a layperson, but what’s interesting to me is that this seems distinct from past therapeutic uses of CRISPR that I am familiar with like CAR-T. In CAR-T, we use CRISPR to modify immune cells so they know how to attack the target (cancer). But in this approach, it seems more like we have created a new virus that uses CRISPR to directly edit and damage the SIV virus, which is nuts.