Posted December 17, 201014 yr Stem cell transplant shows the way to HIV cure Stem cell research is giving a new lease on life to thousands of people around the world in the form of cures for diseases that until now were impossible to cure; and now, using stem cell transplant, scientists have actually managed to create an HIV cure that actually works. This is the first time that a cure for HIV has been found. It has been a lengthy process considering the HIV positive man received the stem cell transplant three years ago and the HIV cure has been detected only recently. The test was carried by a group of German researchers who want to take this further. The results are promising, but like any research or study, results based on a single patient can never be taken to be a positive confirmation. “You can’t have absolute assurance on the basis of one patient, but the likelihood was from the beginning that this should work if you can do it. The fact that the one patient who was treated then was effectively cured is, I think, a very strong argument that you want to continue this kind of approach to the HIV problem,” explains David Baltimore, who was a winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for medicine. The identity of the “Berlin patient” who received the stem cell transplant is not being revealed, but his HIV cure will surely pave a path for the millions who suffer from the disease as well.
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