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IMHO, the only reason why this interesting is that the data was published in NEJM. It is not often they publish junk these days... Apparently, the receptor CCR5 delta32 was from a homozygous donor. So the HIV infected man was the recipient of that homozygous donor (a 1:3 chance that would ever happen).
However, the HIV infected recipient ALSO has another form of HIV called X4. It is unknown what will happen.
What is interesting is that all the WBC's from the donor repopulated a HIV recipient. It is possible, but not proven until the work was actually done, then it is unknown about the prognosis.
Dr. Levy at UCSF says this will NOT be a normal treatment in the US... Too many questions and I wouldn't want to write that human subject's IRB... But that'll be me...
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