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Me too, I'd like to know whether a consensus exists that this HIV is harmless or whether it's just these researchers' opinions.
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
Me too, I'd like to know whether a consensus exists that this HIV is harmless or whether it's just these researchers' opinions.
- xd 15y agoThe HIV is used to modify white blood cells .. so I'd wager harmless as they are not putting the HIV into the patient. This is why I changed the title after a little nudge, to avoid people getting the wrong end of the stick.
- jforman 15y agoI haven't studied the details of the vector they used, but as a general comment HIV is a very well-understood virus, so removing its potential to infect a human should be easy to do in theory. Practice is another matter, since molecular biology is quite messy.