HIV 'Cure' Fails In First 2 Patients

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1. Weren't they supposed to use marrow from someone with the gene sequence

Making them immune to the HIV virus? There was promise several years back regarding the Delta32 mutation. The mutation itself makes it statistically improbable that HIV can penetrate the body's T-cells because it keeps the CCR5 protein from coming to the cell's surface and allowing HIV to latch onto it. A transplant from a person who had such a mutation was assumed to eventually eliminate the virus carrying cells from the body, replacing them with virus-immune white blood cells. The article talks about the person this was done to in the past. I wonder why they equate this different, incomparable study with the actual promising example involving the Delta32 mutation.