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A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant.
The man, who has been virus-free for close to six years , is only the second person to receive stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.
The case “broadens the horizon of what might be possible” for treating HIV, says Sara Weibel , a physician-scientist.
The case also has implications for therapies currently in early-stage clinical trials, in which the CCR5 receptor is sliced out of a person’s own cells using CRISPRCas9 and other gene-editing techniques, says Lewin . Even if these therapies don’t get to every single cell, they could still have an impact, she says..
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