Video A third person was healed from HIV thanks to a bone marrow stem cell transplant, the Pasteur Institute said on Monday, February 20 in a press release. This announcement gives hope to scientists.
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The French Institute said that the patient was “probably healed”, because more than five years after receiving the transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation which is resistant to HIV infection – and forty- Four months after stopping antiretroviral drugs -the tests have not revealed any trace of the previous infection of man. This patient had received the stem cells of bone marrow in the context of a treatment which he followed against leukemia in Düsseldorf, Germany.
“The donor’s immune cells will replace and destroy immune cells with HIV in this man,” said Asier Saez-Cirion, co-author of the study on this case published in the journal Nature Medicine. With a precedent in 2007, nicknamed “The Berlin patient”, and another in 2016, “The London patient”, “The patient of Düsseldorf” is the third case of healing of HIV by bone marrow transplant in the world.
Although the procedure is complex, expensive and risky, Mr. Saez-Cirion believes that this is an encouraging step in the search for a remedy against HIV, which makes it possible to envisage the introduction DEVLATIONS REPTIONAL GENIC MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS without resorting to bone marrow transplant.