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Gene Therapy Offers Hope Of Cure For HIV

Featured on: The Independent
Publication date: Feb 12, 2009

After receiving a bone-marrow transplant, a man with HIV shows no sign of the disease, for 20 months and counting. While scientists don't see the surgery as a routine treatment for HIV sufferers, they believe they could use this knowledge to use gene therapy to achieve similar results.

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