💬 Quoted…​​ “This obviously positive symbol [provides] hope, but there's a lot of work to do."

A 53-year-old man from Dusseldorf, Germany, has become the fifth person to ever be officially cured of HIV, per a new study published yesterday in Nature Medicine. Though he's only the third patient in history to have seemingly eliminated the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV (the other two appear to have been somehow cured without treatment).

• Unfortunately, this procedure isn’t considered a suitable option for nearly all of the 38 million people around the world currently living with HIV. It’s very high-risk, and generally performed in cancer patients without any other treatment options.

🥵🥶 Stat of the Day: If this week’s weather had a theme song, it’d probably be Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold.” Forecasters are projecting a 100-degree temperature spread from North Dakota (-10°F) to Florida (90°F) tomorrow.

🤯 Did You Know?... The average lifespan of pet cats around the world has nearly doubled since the early 1980s, from seven years to 15 years.

📖 Worth a Read: The childhoods of exceptional people → (LessWrong)