it s got quite a high fatality rate so was nobody would say that this is feasible for rollout what it does show is that in principle you could engineer patients. to make them resistant by removing the same gene from those cells and therefore hopefully give them long term protection from the effects of hey chad of you without having to undergo lifelong treatment and so in terms of the technology where are we now given that we have identified the gene mutation that confers they say hiv immunity do we have the technology to placate or indeed manufacture these genes. in principle we have the same knowledge and i think the biggest advance in recent years and some of the o. . viewers may have heard of the technology is called chris because and this is incredibly powerful gene editing gene editing tool which can be used in the of archery so that any facts what you can do is remove hiv infected patients you
is set to expire at the end of the year. doctors report that the second person ever is believed to have been cured of hiv. the science journal nature says the anonymous patient has been hiv free since the procedure in 2016. like the first patient that was cured, the so-called london patient had both cancer and hiv. he was receiving stem cells after chemotherapy to wipe out the cancer. the big difference though was in the new cells donated to him, they had a mutation with hiv immunity. president trump tweeted such great news for so many. tremendous progress being made, except his administration s hiv council was disbanded when he fired them in 2016. the trump administration has called for strict reviews on stem cell research in the past. house republicans are pushing for congressman omar s