AOII Angel... If I understand correctly, the premise of this "cure" is that they wipe out the patient's bone marrow completely, transplant new stems cells into the patient that have an HIV resistant gene, and then the new CD4 cells are HIV resistant, correct?
It has been a little while since my last virology and immunology classes, but isn't HIV a rapidly evolving/mutating virus? I know in patients on the highly specialized drug cocktails, resistance is being seen due to medication non compliance.
Would the same not be possible for such a therapy as this?
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