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Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies (www.fredhutch.org)
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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

My understanding is the herpes virus DNA is integrated into our own.

I'm not sure about the technique here (I'm sure part of the process puts it back together), but I just wanted to denote that this is how all retroviruses work - they infect a cell and incorporate themselves into the DNA, which is then replicated by normal cell processes.

Our DNA is littered with the corpses of many such remnants, and if we can figure out how to stop Herpes, it would be a path to also stopping HIV.