Doctors in Germany report they have cured an HIV-positive American of the AIDS virus after performing a stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia.
But experts caution that while the man's outcome seems promising, the risky procedure might not work on otherwise healthy people with HIV and probably won't yield an overall cure for AIDS. Still, if the patient's HIV doesn't resurface, this would mark the first time HIV has been wiped out in any patient.
In 2007, Timothy Ray Brown received a stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia, a cancer of the blood. The procedure involves destroying a patient's natural immune system with chemotherapy and radiation, then boosting it back up by inserting bone marrow or blood stem cells from a healthy donor.
But experts caution that while the man's outcome seems promising, the risky procedure might not work on otherwise healthy people with HIV and probably won't yield an overall cure for AIDS. Still, if the patient's HIV doesn't resurface, this would mark the first time HIV has been wiped out in any patient.
In 2007, Timothy Ray Brown received a stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia, a cancer of the blood. The procedure involves destroying a patient's natural immune system with chemotherapy and radiation, then boosting it back up by inserting bone marrow or blood stem cells from a healthy donor.
Thats a real grt stuff... to get a bone marrow donor for stem cells not a big deal for aids patients...anyone can donate it if all pre test for the procedure match wit that of recipient.. Am not able to make out how donor stem cells were able to produce antibodies where recipient cells cant. Well atleast he is healed of that, and future cure for aids is not far away. GB please stop that.
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