"Only one man seems ever to have been cured of AIDS, a patient who also had leukemia. To treat the leukemia, he received a bone marrow transplant in Berlin from a donor who, as luck would have it, was naturally immune to the AIDS virus. If that natural mutation could be mimicked in human blood cells, patients could be endowed with immunity to the deadly virus. But there is no effective way of making precise alterations in human DNA"
Until now.
Now, for the piddling price of $39,000, you can order up a protein that will slice and splice a DNA molecule at the precise location where you want to insert a modification.
Absolutely amazing!
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