New Hope of a Cure of H.I.V.

In this article, a man that received a bone marrow transplant was cured of HIV and has been living well for the past four years. The patients immune system was replaced by a donor's. The donor was among the one percent of Northern Europeans who are naturally resistant to the infection. After witnessing the experiment, scientists tried to modify other immune cells to make them resistant to HIV. As previously incurable diseases slowly become curable, humanities weaknesses are becoming fewer and fewer. Are weakness and disease things that make us human? Is it ethical to eliminate all of humanities weaknesses?

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