HIV can 'cut and paste' in the human genome
Aarhus University has developed a technology that uses the HIV virus as a tool in the fight against hereditary diseases.
by Benjamin Werner Christensen
Researchers from Aarhus University have succeeded in altering HIV virus particles so that they can simultaneously, as it were, ‘cut and paste’ in our genome via biological processes. The technology makes it possible to repair genomes in a new way. It also offers good perspectives for individual treatment of both hereditary diseases and certain viral infections, Aarhus University writes in a press release.
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