New Hope of a Cure for H.I.V.

[Bob]

New Hope of a Cure for H.I.V.
November 28, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/health/new-hope-of-a-cure-for-hiv.html

In 2007 and 2008, while living in Berlin, Mr. Brown received two bone-marrow transplants to treat his leukemia. The donor was among the 1 percent of Northern Europeans naturally resistant to H.I.V. infection because they lack CCR5, a protein on the surface of immune cells that the virus uses as an entry portal.

With his own immune system replaced by one resistant to infection, Mr. Brown, 45, who now lives in San Francisco, has apparently been free of the virus for about four years.

And Hillary Johnson has made a comment about the article on her OSLERSWEB website:
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