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As a non-scientist can someone explain how this would be delivered? How do you do gene therapy on a virus already in people? I guess more ignorantly, how does o
by brianbreslin 14y ago
As a non-scientist can someone explain how this would be delivered? How do you do gene therapy on a virus already in people? I guess more ignorantly, how does one deploy the cure to all of the HIV cells in the body in order to modify them?
- maxerickson 14y agoIf I have it right, the idea is to do gene therapy on the person so that their cells produce proteins that block the reproduction of the virus.
- crusso 14y agoI was going to shoot off "with a retrovirus", but then I thought I'd wikipedia it. Glad I did. Looks like the non-viral delivery methods are improving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy