Can Bone Marrow Transplants Lead To Virus Resistant Cells?
4:28PM ON
11/11/2008
BY
Eric Smith
From the Wall Street Journal, a startling medical mystery:
“The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days…The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.”
Read the amazing story here.
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November 12th, 2008 at 12:17AM
joe bernstein Says:
Amazing,but a hell of a hard way to beat AIDS if you ask me.