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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by pm90 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:26PM (#14249727)
To be fair, they probably said the same about penicillin when it was discovered.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by quux on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:38PM (#14249831)
And in a way penicillin is too good to be true, now that bacteria are widely resistant to it and many other antibiotics.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by eliben on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:37PM (#14250858)
Penicillin probably saved at least tens of millions of lives, and other antibiotics even more. Yes, some strains of bacteria are developing resistance, but even today antibiotics are saving many many lives every day.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by a_imho on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:31AM (#14253717)
Can we crispr resistant bacteria to be susceptible to penicillin/antibiotics again?
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by ccozan on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:10AM (#14253878)
Interesting idea. So you would first infect voluntarily with a custom virus that targets the bacteria by using CRISPR to remove the DNA strand of the resistance, then simply use the usual antibiotics to kill it.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by mathw on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:48AM (#14254025)
At that point couldn't you just make a custom virus which kills the bacteria, so it happens in one step?
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by omarchowdhury on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:20PM (#14250198)
Doesn't erase the benefit it has had up to this point.
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Re:CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals by erklik on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:22PM (#14252021)
The millions saved haven't been eroded if some bacteria now are developing resistance.
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