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avazhitoday at 1:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Haven’t they done exactly this several times already?

Edit: Yep.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02463-w

It’s happened at least 5 times.


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helsinkiandrewtoday at 1:20 PM

The novelty of this (not captured in the headline) is that the man received non-resistant stem cells .

I believe in all previous cases the donors had mutations of the CCR5 gene which made them resistant to HIV.