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Allow that person to get infected with hiv. so when they transplanted the marrow of this special kind of defect into this person, the virus had nowhere to go. so the virus essentially disappeared. this is something that was done about ten years ago with the famous german berlin patient, which was timothy brown, which was the first so-called cure. from a conceptual standpoint, if you modify the receptor the virus needs, one way or another you can get to a situation where the virus won't replicate. but to think that bone marrow transplantation is going to be a scaleable, feasible, safe way to tr...

>> no, it's certainly not applicable to most disease, ali, but we've known it about hiv. years ago it was discovered that people who have this genetic defect of not having a receptor for the virus on their cells somehow or other were completely unable to get infected. then we found out from the original berlin patient that if you take marrow from one person that has this defect and put it into an a.i.d.s. patient, that person will no longer replicate virus. so we've already known this. what this london patient does is confirm something that we've already known, that this receptor, ccr-5, is cr...