Stem cell transplant cures a patient with HIV

• April 23, 2024

German doctors believe that the first man positive zero he cured through a procedure of transplant of mother cells , which would represent a great medical breakthrough , publish the portal The Huffington Post.

The transplant was done in 2007, as part of a long treatment of leukemia . Timothy Ray Brown , also known as "Patient Berlin", has been named as the first case where medical evidence suggests that the cure for HIV It has been achieved.

The results were published in the newspaper Blood and if confirmed, this discovery could pave the way for the construction of a permanent cure against human immunodeficiency virus through genetically modified stem cells.

Ray received the bone marrow from a donor that was immune to the virus naturally. Natural resistance to disease occurs according to a genetic profile which does not possess the co-receptor (CCR5 protein) in its cells.

The patient has been 3 and a half years without treatment against HIV with a normal CD4 count (cells of the immune system that are normally the host cells where HIV replicates and harms in the process) and does not present evidence of duplication of the virus, publish the portal AIDSMEDS.

And although the announcement does not confirm that a Universal cure , if it provides hope for the more than 3 million people who live with HIV worldwide.

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