humans are the cleverest apes EVAR!

take THAT mother nature

Good thing CNN had the diagrams, otherwise I would never would have understood it.

We all know that that didn't cure him. What cured him was accepting jesus christ as his savior.
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But what this shows is that one day we will be able to take the genes for HIV-resistance and insert them into your stemcells or stemcells being transplanted to you(or any resistances we find or would be nice to have).

>> ^TheGenk:

We all know that that didn't cure him. What cured him was accepting jesus christ as his savior.
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But what this shows is that one day we will be able to take the genes for HIV-resistance and insert them into your stemcells or stemcells being transplanted to you(or any resistances we find or would be nice to have).


You also wiped out the existing white blood cells with chemo, which makes this a special case of was it the stem cells alone, or was the chemo needed as well. Chemo therapy has high risks as well, you can die from a simple infection in this depressed imuno-state. Like the lady said, it was more a proof of concept than a solution in itself.