Last night, I shared this with little comment because I was, honestly, speechless. As someone who was a teen in the 80s--a theatre kid who went out clubbing every weekend, no less--I was witness to the rise of AIDS & lost friends. To maybe see the cure in my lifetime? Speechless, in the best way.

TKtylerking.bsky.socialMar 26, 2024 2:32am

Using Crispr-Cas gene editing, a university research team from Amsterdam was able to eliminate HIV from cells in a laboratory.

HIV cure breakthrough as virus eliminated from cells in laboratory

It is thanks to a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, which won the Nobel Prize in 2020

yah, seeing this pop up last night made for a lot of big feelings. *hugs if appropriate*yah, seeing this pop up last night made for a lot of big feelings. *hugs if appropriate*

Another massive god-like triumph of science and the hard work of man.

Rock On Amsterdam! 🤟❤️‍🩹🤟

Maybe it's a badly written article, or maybe I'm just stupid, but isn't HIV a retrovirus, and HIV only has RNA (no DNA)? I mean, there's a proscription that takes place to insert a modified DNA into the CD4 cells, but isn't that a short-lived process and hard / impossible to target with this method?

This miracle level breakthrough. My god, sickle cell, cystic fibrosis, and now HIV? Honestly never thought I would live to see it.

I’m speechless too

Holy shit, I'm on the verge of tears just seeing the headline. I was born in the 80s and missed the acute intensity of that first wave, but even then the absence of the people who should have been in the theatre and weren't was felt daily.

Holy hell!

Fantastic. Science is wonderful

...only if you can afford the cure.