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HIV case cured by umbilical cord stem cells

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Is Cancer Chemotherapy a Cure?

There are people out there who are naturally resistant to HIV. Europeans have this mutation called the Delta 32 mutation. Around 1% of Caucasians will have both of their copies mutated. So in Adam's case, by giving him cells that make at bone marrow and cells that therefore make an immune system that have or carry those changes, he ends up with a new immune system that cannot be infected with HIV.

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