Man appears to be free of HIV after receiving a bone marrow stem cell transplant from donor with a gene resistant to HIV
A 42-year-old 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 in the New England Journal of Medicine. “The patient is fine,†[Sign in to read the full article...]
