A woman appears to have been cured of HIV with a therapy using stem cells in umbilical cord blood, scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center say.
A woman appears to have been cured of HIV with a therapy using stem cells in umbilical cord blood, scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center say, making her the fourth person, and the first woman, apparently cured of the disease, and possibly allowing doctors to attempt a cure on dozens of people per year.
The patient has shown no signs of HIV infection since she stopped treatment for the virus in October 2020, following a transplant of umbilical-cord stem cells containing a mutation that blocks HIV, as well as a transplant of stem cells from an adult relative, making her the first person apparently cured using umbilical cord blood, theThe stem cell treatment is highly risky, requiring doctors to destroy the patient’s immune system using chemotherapy or radiation and to rebuild it with new cells,...
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