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A 60-year-old man in Germany appears to have been cured of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) after receiving a stem cell transplant..
"Previous stem cell transplants without an immune donor resulted in the HIV multiplying again after a few months," said Gaebler...
Unlike other cases with donors having two copies of a mutated CCR5 gene making them immune to HIV, this Berlin patient received stem cells from a donor with only one copy...
The original Berlin patient was Timothy Ray Brown, an American living in Germany at the time, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 and then acute myeloid leukemia in 2006...
A stem cell transplant is a procedure in which a patient receives healthy stem cells (blood-forming cells) to replace their own stem cells that have been destroyed by treatment with radiation or high doses of chemotherapy, according to the US National Cancer Institute...
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