Stem Cell Transplant May Have Cured HIV

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/health.hiv.stemcell/index.html

 
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A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

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