"Paula Cannon, a molecular microbiologist who studies HIV at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. She says the latest data, combined with Brown’s now 10-year remission, suggests that any path to a cure for HIV/AIDS goes straight through CCR5. “What these two patients have shown us is that attacking the reservoir of infected cells while at the same time providing shiny, new HIV-resistant immune cells can result in a cure.” It’s kind of a push-and-pull strategy; one part defense, one part offense."
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