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I heard that there is a genetic mutation that can make organisms (Im not sure if they've seen this in just lb animals or people) highly resistant to AIDS, ie it takes 1000x the amount of the virus to affect them or something like that and that this genetic mutation might have helped people survive the black plague. I was wondering if people who are resistant to aids would also be highly resistant to cancer, and if people with a high resistance to aids could possibly help other people fight aids with a blood transfusion like how blood from the cancer resistant mice cured cancer. I was wondering what you guys thought about some people having a natural resistant to cancer like the cancer-resistant mice; ie do you think it's likely, possible, so implausible that's it's almost a stupid question? I think they were going to begin to look for cancer-resistant people (during this summer?) I read a quote that said "well sometimes people smoke a lot and the ones that never develop cancer are maybe cancer-resistant" but that was just a random quote...also sorry for totally misunderstanding the bone marrow quote I read before