{"id":51902,"date":"2023-10-31T08:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51902"},"modified":"2023-10-31T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:14:33","slug":"cure-for-hiv-could-be-months-away-as-first-three-patients-are-injected-with-new-crispr-therapy-that-seeks-and-destroys-lingering-pieces-of-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/cure-for-hiv-could-be-months-away-as-first-three-patients-are-injected-with-new-crispr-therapy-that-seeks-and-destroys-lingering-pieces-of-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cure for HIV could be months away as first three patients are injected with new CRISPR therapy that seeks and destroys lingering pieces of virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_27411\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27411\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27411\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging-770x462.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging-360x216.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HIV-imaging.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The HIV protein capsule (pink) passes as a whole through a pore (grey) in the cell membrane (yellow), where it<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After four decades and over 700,000 Americans dead, gene editing experts believe they are on the cusp of curing\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-e8fb67a0-7760-11ee-9fa0-e3c3fff899c2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/hiv_aids\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12689777\/Cure-HIV-months-away-three-patients-injected-new-CRISPR-therapy-seeks-destroys-lingering-pieces-virus.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>After four decades and over 700,000 Americans dead, gene editing experts believe they are on the cusp of curing\u00a0HIV.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hiv-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HIV-research.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51903,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51902\/revisions\/51903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}