Molecular Medicine Israel

Understanding the Berlin patient’s unexpected cure of HIV

New tool developed to study stem cell transplants as a potential way to treat HIV

Researchers have a new way to understand the much-studied Berlin patient’s unexpected cure from HIV and improve outcomes of stem cell transplants for patients with other blood-related diseases such as leukemia and sickle-cell disease. A team has shown a species of monkey called Mauritian cynomolgus macaques can successfully receive stem cell transplants.

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