The treatment is considered radical, and the results were drawn from a small scale human trial, but for the first time in medical history, researchers have boosted their patients’ ability to fight HIV by replacing some of their natural immune cells with genetically modified versions.
This news comes just one day after doctors announced that a second child may have been cured of HIV. This awful disease, which has killed at least 35 million people around the world, is under a full-scale assault by medical researchers. Now, in this separate study, scientists have demonstrated that GM cells can also be used to tackle the problem.
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