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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5940369" data-attributes="member: 177">This one showed up in Scientific American a couple months back as well.  Because the Yahoo article is not too detailed - the man in question has AIDS.  He needed a bone marrow transplant for other reasons, and got a transplant of marrow that produces blood cells that are resistant to HIV.  His body no longer produced cells that HIV could inhabit, and his AIDS simply vanished.  Not only is he asymptomatic, but his virus load is no longer detectable.The Scientific American article spoke of how this case spurned other research, but not what the Yahoo article is talking about.  The SciAm article discussed genetic therapy - basically forcibly giving the AIDS patient new genes in his or her bone marrow, such that they then produce resistant blood cells.</blockquote>