A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow
transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy
strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the
disease.
The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still
recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his
battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his
blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all
conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS
drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.
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