Seventh patient ‘cured’ of HIV: why scientists are excited (Nature, 2024)

A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant1. But the man, who has been virus-free for close to six years, is only the second person to receive stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.

“I am quite surprised that it worked,” says Ravindra Gupta, a microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who led a team that treated one of the other people who is now free of HIV2,3. “It’s a big deal.”

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Open access news article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02463-w