Comment by helsinkiandrew
Comment by helsinkiandrew a day ago
The novelty of this (not captured in the headline) is that the man received non-resistant stem cells .
I believe in all previous cases the donors had mutations of the CCR5 gene which made them resistant to HIV.
Second sentence from the article:
> Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.