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Hutchinson Center’s Push for HIV Cure is Legacy of “Berlin Patient”
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a 5-year, $20-million grant to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to test ” whether a person’s own stem cells can be engineered to deny HIV entry into the body’s blood cells.” The possibility of a cure for HIV is more than a little mind-boggling after so many years where the best hope was simply to arrest the virus’s progression. Continue reading Hutchinson Center’s Push for HIV Cure is Legacy of “Berlin Patient”