PHILADELPHIA: University of Pennsylvania researchers have snipped out a single gene in patients’ immune cells to make them partly resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The study, in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, bolsters hope for controlling HIV without daily antiviral drugs — a so-called functional cure.

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