Cancer Treatment Eliminates HIV In UK Patient

The study, to be published in the journal Nature, showed the effective use of bone-marrow transplant to clear the second patient of the virus. The same process was used in the first person who was reported clinically cured of HIV. in 2007, The New York Times reported Monday.

Researchers said the new bone marrow gave the patient’s immune cells the ability to resist HIV. The findings come from a study originally intended to analyze the effects of bone marrow transplants on cancer patients.

“This will inspire people that cure is not a dream,” Annemarie Wensing, a virologist at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, said. “It’s reachable.”

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