Every virus-resistant person has two mutant copies of a gene called CCR5, and a new biotech tool called zinc finger nucleases givve anyone that mutation. Instead of transferring bone marrow from another person, doctors could take a few cells from a patient, modify them to be HIV-resistant and then put them back in."
(technology available now from Sigma-Aldrich, CompoZr ZFN)
(technology available now from Sigma-Aldrich, CompoZr ZFN)