Dr kamel khalili hiv virus youtube

Instead of suppressing and treating HIV and AIDS, which is what currently happens, researchers have for the first time shown they've found a way to destroy the virus. It might not look like a typical operating room, but in a lab at Temple's Center for Neurovirology researchers are performing surgeries on genes. Welcome to the front lines of genetic surgery.

Kamel Khalili, who led the research team. They developed molecular tools that can hunt down and delete HIV in cells.

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Khalili showed a slide with a cell infected with HIV, highlighted in green. Then he showed another slide where the HIV is gone, the result of Temple's gene surgery. We have a system to eliminate HIV from the cells in the laboratory," said Dr. Now the next step is to find a way to move the discovery from the lab into animals then people, the groundwork being set for curing HIV.

Khalili doesn't have a time frame on when this discovery could be in clinical trials. There are so many variables. Thirty-three-million people have HIV.