In “Our Neural Chernobyl” Bruce Sterling suggested that HIV would prove exceptionally useful, once we broke it on the wheel; it could be used to deliver gene therapies efficiently, quickly, and while bypassing the cell’s normal defenses. According to the BBC, we’re now using it to do just that: “US scientists say they used HIV to make a gene therapy that cured eight infants of severe combined immunodeficiency, or “bubble boy” disease.” The scientists in question are a bit more oblique about it:
Continue reading Early days yet, but most common form of ‘Bubble boy’ disease appears… cured.