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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3917429 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Despite the enormous success of combined anti-retroviral therapy, HIV infection is still a lifelong disease and continues to spread rapidly worldwide. There is a pressing need to develop a treatment that will cure HIV infection. Recent progress in stem cell manipulation and advancements in humanized mouse models have allowed rapid developments of gene therapy for HIV treatment. In this review, we will discuss two aspects of HIV gene therapy using human hematopoietic stem cells. The first is to g ...[more]