Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy discuss disruption of the ccr5 gene in lymphocytes of patients infected with HIV-1.

Links for this episode

• Gene editing of ccr5 in AIDS patients (NEJM)
• HIV gets the zinc finger (TWiV 144)
• Genome engineering with zinc finger nucleases (Genetics)
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• Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate t-shirt design (thanks, Christophe)
• Letters read on TWiV 278

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