Solving the Mystery of the Berlin Patient Cured of HIV
Scientists have a powerful new way to reproduce the success.
A population descended from five monkeys left on an island by Dutch spice traders 500 years ago may be the key to replicating a legendary HIV treatment that left one man functionally cured. Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University published their findings Friday morning in Nature Communications.
This paper means researchers can now look into how and why one person—, often referred to as "the Berlin patient"—seemed to be functionally cured of HIV after a bone marrow transplant.
