HIV cured via bone marrow transplate

Slashdot is reporting the intriguing news that a German doctor has cured a patient of HIV (2 years free of the virus) with a bone marrow transplant from a person naturally immune. Very exciting stuff.

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2 Responses to “HIV cured via bone marrow transplate”


  1. 1 Dru Nov 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    this is freaking awesome… I read about it recently and thought, “God, your hand must be in there somewhere.”

  2. 2 Jonathan Nov 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    I can’t wait for the day I’m insanely wealthy and can poor money into making something like this a widespread viable solution.

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