Testing cord blood transplants as a cure for leukemia — and HIV - Fred Hutch News Service

Fred Hutch researchers have launched a clinical trial for patients with HIV who need a transplant to survive advanced leukemia. They will receive a transplant of cord blood from donors who have a rare genetic trait that confers resistance to HIV, in hopes of …

For most of his years after the transplant, Brown was the only person in the world known to have been cured of HIV. But he lived long enough to know he was not alone. On March 4, 2019, a second man, … [+3488 chars]

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