I thought this was pretty a pretty big deal -- Scientists discovered
a way to edit genes in your body's immune cells which make the cells resistant to HIV.
This is biggest breakthrough since the discovery of the Berlin patient who was HIV resistant. (Basing treatment on that discovery is not feasible for the mass market because donor cells containing the the gene found in the Berlin patient were likely to be attacked by the body)
Scientific American link here
This is a great step forward to one day wiping this horrible virus off the face of this planet.
a way to edit genes in your body's immune cells which make the cells resistant to HIV.
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...Scientists... are particularly excited about one study participant in whom the virus did not return during the 12-week portion of the study in which antiretroviral therapy was paused. When they examined his genome, they found that he already had one mutated copy of CCR5. “Nature had done half of the job,” says Tebas. After the addition of the modified cells, well over half the T cells in his body were resistant to HIV.
This is biggest breakthrough since the discovery of the Berlin patient who was HIV resistant. (Basing treatment on that discovery is not feasible for the mass market because donor cells containing the the gene found in the Berlin patient were likely to be attacked by the body)
Scientific American link here
This is a great step forward to one day wiping this horrible virus off the face of this planet.
