Merged Berlin Patient, HIV cure?

[Baylor]

HIV "functionally cured"

Has the long-awaitted cure for HIV finally arrived?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...helookout/first-man-functionally-cured-of-hiv

 

[Darat]

Not in any practical sense. It's interesting but I wouldn't have thought very surprising?

 

[ThunderChunky]

This is old news. Nowadays you wouldn't even have to find a donor. You could take the patients own cells and delete the gene to get the same effect. The problem is that a bone marrow transplant is very risky.