Finally, the cure?

Shrek4

If this proves to work on more than two people, this will be the most important news in a few decades.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

CelineFlower

Wow...

now this is interesting 

"which employs a disabled form of H.I.V.-1, the virus that causes AIDS, to carry cancer-fighting genes into the patients’ T-cells."

Shrek4

I know, and the T-cells they're engineering are actually a total hybrid, human and animal genes. I think it's brilliant.

cbear

An experimental treatment in which researchers reengineer a patient's own immune system to attack cancer cells seems to have worked in a 7-year old girl named Emma Whitehead. The acute lymphoblastic leukemia that almost claimed Whitehead's life is now in remission.

Shrek4

Yes, that is the article the link points to.