Could gene therapy hold key in AIDS fight?
1,551 views · Published 6 March 2014 · 2:24 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: CBS Evening News · 2014 · News & Politics
An experimental treatment for HIV at the University of Pennsylvania is using gene therapy to help prevent the virus from developing into AIDS. Doctors extracted immune cells from trial patients, disabled the gene for the molecule that HIV binds to, then re-injected the cells into patients. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.
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