I love living in the future.

[theweaselking]

Boston doctors duplicate The Berlin Patient, demonstrate a working cure for AIDS in two more cases.

The cure requires a bone marrow transplant and that either the donor or the recipient be HIV-resistant, so it's not exactly the kind of thing that can be widely deployed yet - but it's still awesome.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm badly mistaken (which happens), couldn't they use stem cell cultures and grow out HIV resistant bone marrow lines? I know this'll take time, but it seems to me that it would work.

I know it's not without its issues (i.e.blood typing, etc.), but still, this does seem very promising.

[jerril]

To the best of my knowledge, they aren't able to manufacture bone marrow outside of the human body yet.

Otherwise they'd probably be hunting the hell down every type O- person and trying to develop a broad spectrum of the "most universal" donors available, for the more traditional use in leukemia and lymphoma patients who are unable to self-donate.