Jr High Drop Out

The cure is an untenable solution for nearly everyone, whereas modern Western medicine allows a person with HIV to live largely AIDS-free in most cases. Still, this is an event of note. The man was (pending third party confirmation, of course) cured of the virus. That is friggin' huge.

Side note, this made use of adult stem cells, and not embryonic ones. With modern discoveries that allow us to take adult stem cells and revert them to pluripotent cells, adult stem cells have a vast potential.