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American FDA clears biotech firm for potential HIV cure

Sopuruchi Onwuka The United States health regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, has cleared Excision BioTherapeutics Incorporated to proceed with its CRISPR gene-editing technology which presents new hopes for cure of the lingering Human Immuno-deficiency Virus popularly called HIV which…

Scientists discover new lead to HIV cure

Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A new collaborative effort aims to cure HIV using a novel “block-lock-excise” approach and is backed by a $26.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Scientists at Gladstone Institutes, Scripps Research, and Weill…