Resistant Hiv facts
While investigating facts about Resistant Hiv Strains and Resistant Hiv Virus, I found out little known, but curios details like:
There is a mutation of the gene CCR5, called Delta 32, which introduces a premature stop codon into the gene. This premature codon means cells that have this mutation can't receive the HIV virus. Individuals with a homozygous CCR5-Delta 32 mutation are completely resistant to the HIV virus.
how to know if you are hiv resistant?
Two Chinese twin girls, born last October, are the first humans to have been gene edited. They're said to be modified to be resistant to HIV, using CRISPR. The doctor that conducted the experiment, Dr. He, said the girls were been healthy, but he could easily have lied. There are ethics concerns
What blood group is resistant to hiv?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what has caused the evolution of drug-resistant strains of hiv. Here are 6 of the best facts about Resistant Hiv Treatment and Drug Resistant Hiv I managed to collect.
what causes multidrug resistant forms of hiv?
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Under 1% of the human population has an innate resistance to the HIV virus.
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they have isolated a defect in a gene that is HIV resistant
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From my textbook there's a subset of people who lack the receptor HIV binds to and therefore are resistant. Here's a Nature article on it
