iStockRecently, Hsu et al. reported the remission and possible cure of HIV-1 infection in the context of an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. This is the fourth case of a potential cure for HIV infection ever, the first in a woman, the first in a person of mixed race, and the first in which a CCR5Δ32/Δ32 haplo-cord transplant was used.
Read this research highlight at Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy.
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