While posting the link in response to the OP might have been a bit facetious on my part (timing - I stumbled across the thread almost immediately after reading the article), I do believe that this line of research is the most promising, and blatantly obvious path to eventually curing HIV, and probably a host of other ailments. Some of the most significant advances against disease in the modern age have come from exploiting immunities that developed in nature (the vaccine, the antibiotic). The goal of actually transferring an observed resistance from one person to another directly has the potential to be a much more fruitful endeavor than the multi-billion dollar boondoggle that the last few years of research have amounted to.
These guys weren't just in the right place and right time to do this, this seems to be the direction the research is going now that they've completely given up on a vaccine:http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/hivtreatment.html
The fact that its actually worked in one person, at least to the extent they can credibly say it has worked, is a major milestone for this research, and its come very early compared to other attempts. And to be fair to the OP, he did say the cure would just be "on the way." I'm confident it now is.
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