For the second time, doctors believe they have effectively 'cured' a patient of HIV, this time a 40-year-old man living in London.
to enter certain immune cells but cannot latch on to the mutated version. In other words, the donor was HIV-resistant.
To be cured of both cancer and HIV was"surreal," Castillejo told the newspaper."I never thought that there would be a cure during my lifetime.", were scheduled for presentation at this week's Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, in Seattle.
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