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Originally Posted by Cheese
excellent news if true.
Now if we can get more stem cell funding in place to deal with many of the other maladies that exist...
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to be clear, this is not embyonic stem cells, it is hematopoietic stem cells (i.e. a bone marrow transplant). No apparent controversy with this type of stem cell.
This was quite the fortutious discovery. The patient having leukemia, infected by the specific strain of HIV that cannot infect the specific stem cells used in transplantation for his leukemia
a conventional bone marrow transplant would not have worked, and a different strain of HIV would have re-infected his new blood cells
lucky man