{"id":85338,"date":"2019-09-15T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:19:51","slug":"scientists-tried-crispr-to-fight-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-tried-crispr-to-fight-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists tried CRISPR to fight HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to a study,Scientists in China have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat a patient with HIV,but it didn&#8217;t cure the patient.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Gene Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Genome editing is the deliberate alteration of a selected DNA sequence in a living cell. It involves editing an organism&#8217;s DNA by altering, removing or adding nucleotides to the genome.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About CRISPR?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is a gene editing technology, which replicates natural defence mechanism in bacteria to fight virus attacks, using a special protein called Cas9.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Working of CRISPR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CRISPR-Cas9 technology behaves like a cut-and-paste mechanism on DNA strands that contain genetic information.<\/li><li>The specific location of the genetic codes that need to be changed, or \u201cedited\u201d, is identified on the DNA strand and then using the Cas9 protein, which acts like a pair of scissors,that location is cut off from the strand. A DNA strand,when broken has a natural tendency to repair itself.<\/li><li>Scientists intervene during this an auto-repair process,supplying the desired sequence of genetic codes that binds itself with the broken DNA strand.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/VEVSErclwmOfbVpcz_iTXcMWTBPMBCqbm_TtM3hGtVg3tXqnFBYHAcNx4yfignUKWEIS7dW6RyMGBfDBzZodZEQqy6vM3oDhOLo8i7T3HjLjVtUxCCVqvnhZw3RpkKSP0oUCGU8y\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concerns&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Commercial aspect<\/strong>&#8211; Gene editing might be used as a tool to make designer babies by selecting desired traits like intelligence, muscularity, eye color, height, memory etc which will create demographic disparity.<\/li><li><strong>Creation of a superior race-<\/strong> The gene editing can be misused by regimes e.g., soviets tried to procreate a human gorilla which will be the ultimate fighting warrior<\/li><li><strong>Tweaking with nature<\/strong>&#8211; Ethicists believe that reproduction is a marvel of nature and it should not be tweaked with.<\/li><li><strong>Safety Concerns: <\/strong>Studies have shown that edited cells can lack a cancer suppressing protein.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About HIV\/AIDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus.It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), if not treated.There are two main types of the virus: HIV-1 and HIV-2.<\/li><li>At present there is no effective cure for HIV, but HIV can be controlled. The medicine used to treat HIV is called antiretroviral therapy or ART.<\/li><li>According to estimates by WHO and United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS), 36.7 million people were living with HIV globally at the end of 2016.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to a study,Scientists in China have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat a patient with HIV,but it didn&#8217;t cure the patient. Facts: About Gene Editing Genome editing is the deliberate alteration of a selected DNA sequence in a living cell. It involves editing an organism&#8217;s DNA by altering, removing or adding nucleotides to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-tried-crispr-to-fight-hiv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists tried CRISPR to fight HIV<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2656,1814],"class_list":["post-85338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-crispr","tag-hiv","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700106196},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}