Aids Cure Found?

Bone marrow transplant eliminates HIV traces from two patients

July 27, 2012

Bone marrow transplant eliminates HIV traces from two patients’ DNA: Call it a cure?
Ryan Jaslow July 27, 2012
Two men who’ve had HIV for years may now be free of the disease following bone marrow transplants, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston announced Thursday.
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The new research has some attendees at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. hopeful for a cure.

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Both patients were being treated for cases of cancer. One of the patients underwent a bone marrow transplant two years ago at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston, the other had the procedure done four years ago at the same hospital. NBCNews.com reports that one of the patients is in his 50s and has been infected since the early 1980s towards the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and the other man, in his 20s, was infected at birth.

Bone marrow transplant eliminates HIV traces from two patients’ DNA: Call it a cure?

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