The University of KwaZulu-Natal and the South African Medical Research Council have teamed up to work on the HIV Host Genome Project, which investigates how specific mutations present in certain individuals with HIV could act as protective mechanisms, facilitating the design of future therapies. This project has also partnered with MGI (Shenzhen, China), a company that provides real-time, multi-omics digital equipment for precision medicine, to utilize their large-scale genomic sequencing infrastructure. This allowed the researchers to initiate, for the first time, a large-scale genomic investigation into the many South African individuals living with HIV and the few who can control it.
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Source : BioTechniques
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