Researchers eliminated HIV from the DNA of infected mice. It’s the first step toward a cure for humans, they say…. They used CRISPER-Cas9, a gene editing tool that allowed the teams to “clean segments of the genome” and remove the HIV chromosome, co-author Kamel Khalili told CNN.

By the study’s end, researchers had successfully eliminated the virus from 9 out of 23 mice. Even though HIV/AIDS is primarily a disease that affects gay men who engage in anal sex the news is good because obviously is offers hope for gay men and because it offers hope for the non-gay people who get the disease.

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