Becker's Healthcare July 29, 2024
A seventh person has been deemed HIV-free following a stem cell transplant, but he’s only the second to be treated with stem cells not resistant to the virus, according a July 26th report from Nature.
“I am quite surprised that it worked,” Ravindra Gupta, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led a team that treated one of the other people who is now free of HIV, said in the report. “It’s a big deal,” Dr. Gupta said.
The first person to be free of HIV after a bone marrow transplant was treated for blood cancer. He and several...
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