THE USE OF CRISPR-CAS9 AS A MEANS OF COMBATING HIV INFECTION

The search for a drug against the human immunodeficiency virus is one of the key tasks of modern medicine. Today, many drugs have been developed for stopping the replication of the virus. But these drugs should be used for all lifetime and their therapeutic effect is directed only to actively replicating virions. The Crispr-Cas9 system is a new genome editing system that is able to cut latent provirus from the human genome. Therefore, new viruses can't replicate. In combination with modern drugs, the Crispr-Cas9 system opens the perspectives of a complete cure for HIV.