Stephanie Stahl July 21, 2014 3:37 PM

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A scientific first from Philadelphia, that could pave the way toward curing HIV. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl has more on the breakthrough.

Instead of suppressing and treating HIV and AIDS, which is what currently happens, researchers have for the first time shown they've found a way to destroy the virus.

It might not look like a typical operating room, but in a lab at Temple's Center for Neurovirology researchers are performing surgeries on genes.  Welcome to the front lines of genetic surgery. They've found a way to operate on DNA and destroy the AIDS virus.

"It's an important finding because for the first time in laboratory setting we show that the virus can be eradicated from human culture, cell culture, said Dr. Kamel Khalili, who led the research team. They developed molecular tools that can hunt down and delete HIV in cells.

More: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/07/21/health-temple-university-researchers-successfully-eliminate-hiv-virus-in-human-cells/

Thanks for posting this. I wish the article talked more about how it worked.

Agreed.   And I am always leery when a researcher is talking about his own breakthrough.  What do others experts think of the work?

Thanks for posting!