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How can they claim a cure for a retroviral infection, which rewrites host genomes in cells? They can claim to obtain significant purge of cells with rewritten
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
How can they claim a cure for a retroviral infection, which rewrites host genomes in cells? They can claim to obtain significant purge of cells with rewritten genomes?
I'm missing some fundamental explanation where the rift between soundbites and science seems large.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoThe bone marrow transplant is from a person with a gene that makes their white blood cells resistant to the virus. Once the person's old WBCs are gone (killed by chemotherapy in the case of leukemia patients, which, IIRC, all these patients were due to the danger inherent in bone marrow transplants), the new bone marrow then produces only resistant cells.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoso that presumes HIV didn't infect any other reproducing cells?