BBC: UK patient free of HIV after stem cell treatment
A patient from London who was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2012, has been told his HIV is now “undetectable” following a stem cell transplant. He has been in remission from HIV for 18 months. This is only the second case of its kind. (His cancer is also in remission.) Researchers from University College London, Imperial College London, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities reported their success in the journal Nature. “Ten years ago, another patient in Berlin received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor with natural immunity to the virus. Timothy Brown, said to be...
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