They did this a few years back with a leukemia patient. The outcome wasn’t expected and led to further studies
Oooooh, this would be groundbreaking
Since nobody reads articles:
It has happened before in a small handful of cases, only the other times, the stem cell donors all had a mutation that made the derivative cells resistant to HI viruses by lack of a certain receptor.
In modern medicine, however, it’s so far more advisable to give HIV positive patients medication that delays the progression of AIDS and suppresses the virus. It’s not a death sentence anymore, at least not for many years.
Replacing your whole immune system via stem cell therapy is only done if absolutely necessary. In these cases that was leukaemia.
Nevertheless, this can be a puzzle piece to figure out how to cure HIV with something less taxing than stem cell therapy.
That looks gay!
Good to hear…
Hope it’ll be possible with other illnesses….. I can come up with a few I’d like to see the world get rid off.
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That’s kind of a big deal. Holy cow
They did this a few years back with a leukemia patient. The outcome wasn’t expected and led to further studies
Oooooh, this would be groundbreaking
Since nobody reads articles:
It has happened before in a small handful of cases, only the other times, the stem cell donors all had a mutation that made the derivative cells resistant to HI viruses by lack of a certain receptor.
In modern medicine, however, it’s so far more advisable to give HIV positive patients medication that delays the progression of AIDS and suppresses the virus. It’s not a death sentence anymore, at least not for many years.
Replacing your whole immune system via stem cell therapy is only done if absolutely necessary. In these cases that was leukaemia.
Nevertheless, this can be a puzzle piece to figure out how to cure HIV with something less taxing than stem cell therapy.
That looks gay!
Good to hear…
Hope it’ll be possible with other illnesses….. I can come up with a few I’d like to see the world get rid off.
A step in the right direction