American biologists have learned to treat HIV with the help of gene editing.

Molecular biologists have developed a gene therapy that simultaneously clears infected cells of most traces of HIV and alters the DNA of healthy immune cells to make them immune to the virus. An experiment on infected mice showed that such treatment completely suppressed the reproduction of the virus in the body of 58% of rodents, and also led to a stabilization in the number of T cells that normally infect HIV.