2010-12-15, 03:20 PM
Right so they gave antivirals to this guy. Then they took some of his cells/tissue that contained the virus infected cells in question and checked it for HIV-RNA. The Antivirals were successful in this regard and knocked the presence of the virus down to almost nothing which means that the current cells did not really have much of the virus present. Then what they did is that they grafted bone marrow from a donor that produced homozygous mutant red blood cells for a receptor that would normally allow the virus to enter the cell if it wasn't a mutant. These new red blood cells that were "immune" to the virus were not affected. Antiviral treatment was stopped and the cells were examined afterwards to see if the virus would spring up again. It did not.

