Wednesday, November 12, 2008

This is potentially huge...

Scientists in Germany may have cured AIDS with a bone marrow transplant. The patient, who was infected for more than a decade, underwent a bone marrow replacement procedure (typically used for leukemia patients), and in the 20 months since tested negative for any sign of HIV or AIDS.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

what i found equally fascinating was learning that people who inherit a genetic mutation called delta 32 from both sets of parents are immune to AIDS. Immune! I had never heard of that before....