Bone Marrow Transplant Appears to Cure AIDS

[jennythereader]

Really cool news.

Nov. 13, 2008 -- An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.

The full article: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/13/bone-marrow-aids.html

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[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

That's actually a factor in how they made it work. They looked for a blood marrow donor that had the 1 in 1000 gene that prevents you from developing AIDS.