LGBT News No sign of HIV return in bone marrow transplant patients, say scientists

Thats great I've heard about several other apparent cures recently.

 

Intriguing.

 

good.

 

We really need to push for more funding of studies and experiments in genetic modification. What it seems it boils down to is that these people received bone marrow transplants from someone with genetic immunity to HIV.

There are some such people alive, though they are few in number, and it's speculated that a CCR5 mutation which affects the protein on the surface of white blood cells is responsible. There is debate over whether or not the mutation occurred as a result of the Black Death or Smallpox.

I would love to see this beneficial mutation find its way into the general human population. Advances in genetic modification could really change the way medicine works. It's just a shame it doesn't get the type of funding it deserves. Once methods become known, and technology is developed, like all technology it will get cheaper and easier to deploy over time.

Read more about the CCR5 mutation and its speculative evolutionary history here.