Cure HIV with a Bone Marrow Transplant?
Nov 14th, 2008 | By Jonathan Golob | Category: Lit Round-upHis donor marrow was mutant for CCR5. Now six hundred days after receiving the CCR5-lacking bone marrow, his doctors cannot detect HIV virus in his blood–even though the patient is no longer on drug treatment for HIV.
I’d stick with drug therapy, if given the choice.