third patient cured of HIV with bone marrow transplant

Last Monday, a scientific journal announced that a third patient was cured of HIV thanks to a bone marrow transplant carrying a gene that fights the virus. If this operation cannot be reproduced on a large scale, it continues to pave the way for research.

New hope in the fight against HIV. Monday, February 20, the scientific journal Nature Medicine announced that a German, followed in Düsseldorf, no longer showed any signs of the AIDS virus, ten years after his bone marrow transplant. According to the count of the Institut Pasteur which works alongside the University Hospital of Düsseldorf, the universities of Hamburg, Utrecht and the Institute for AIDS Research[…]

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