In this second case, the person received a stem cell transplant with cells that did not express the CCR5 gene, which produces a protein that helps the virus enter cells.
The cells without the CCR5 gene were part of a bone marrow transplant, which the person was undergoing as a treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.
Following the transplant, and at 30 months after the person ceased antiretroviral therapy, doctors confirmed that the HIV viral load remained undetectable in blood samples.
Chinese biophysicist He Jianku 贺建奎 was right when He made expansive claims of a medical breakthrough that could “control the HIV epidemic”.https://www.theguardian.com/…/china-gene-edited-baby…. He is in jail for a 3-years sentence because he was accused by the world to have violated ethics. Perhaps he should be un-villanized now, may be even win a Nobel Prize.Edit or delete this
